GNU bug report logs - #18199
24.4.50; tramp uses wrong arguments to nc

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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 18199-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#18199: 24.4.50; tramp uses wrong arguments to nc
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:36:50 +0800

tag 18199 wontfix
close 18199
thanks

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Well, as you might guess I have tested this with my own equipment. My
>> silly router runs a more recent version of busybox, which requires the
>> "-p" prefix for nc's port specification:
>
> It's more likely a BusyBox configure option, since the version I have
> (v1.19.4 from openWRT) doesn't even accept -l.

Now that I've modified my local tramp to remove the -p, I find that
though nc -l 51257 does not give any errors, it isn't actually listening
on the port either.  I'm not sure what it is doing.

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