You missed my patch for netcat

Mihai Buha mihai.buha at nivis.com
Tue Oct 18 12:33:34 UTC 2005


Hello,

I am the guy who opened three issues on the "Bug and Patch Tracking
system" during May:

Issue #262: minor bug + patch (involving tar)
Issue #263: major bug + patch (involving netcat)
Issue #265: feature request + patch (involving tail)

I classified them as such because "tar x" reported errors after
successfully
decompressing some archives, "nc -e binary ip port" died suddenly, and
tail would have been nice to follow files that were truncated. You can
read the full details on the the bug-tracker.

Then Paul Fox (pgf) came on July 20th and committed all of them to
busybox trunk:
Issue #262: Committed revision 10882.
Issue #263: Committed revision 10883.
Issue #265: Committed revision 10884.

Then Rob Landley considered them all and said:
http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015397.html
"Probably:
...
10882 tar fix
10884, 10920 tail fixes
...
Probably not:
10883 nc -e"

And everyone silently agreed! :)

Today I downloaded busybox 1.01 and saw the crippling bug of netcat was
not fixed.
So I decided to subscribe to this mailing list so that 10883 would still
appear
in busybox 1.02 :)

Cheers, and thanks for a marvellous work.
Mihai Buha



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