[BusyBox] Scriptable telnet?

[Csaba Henk]

Hi,

I'd need a scriptable telnet client for busybox, ie. one such that you
can send commands to, eg. via a fifo, like it's done in

http://okmij.org/ftp/piped_agents.txt

(nb. standard linux telnet is scriptable [the above text mentions only
other Unices]).

It's quite easy to get one: one just has to change the lines

      if (tcgetattr(0, &G.termios_def) < 0)
                exit(1);

to a simple

      tcgetattr(0, &G.termios_def);

in networking/telnet.c .

So far so good for me; but now I wonder is there any reason to treat the
failure of tcgetattr as being fatal? Or, if there is, couldn't at least a
config option be made for contrlling this?

Csaba