[PATCH] telnet: provide feedback after successful connect

Danijel Tasov busybox at ml.rbfh.de
Thu Dec 20 10:21:32 UTC 2018


From: Danijel Tasov <m at rbfh.de>

The real telnet provides some feedback:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.

We should do this to, because people are sitting there and think
a firewall is dropping packets.

Signed-off-by: Danijel Tasov <m at rbfh.de>
---
 networking/telnet.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/networking/telnet.c b/networking/telnet.c
index 1e6be85..1010a7b 100644
--- a/networking/telnet.c
+++ b/networking/telnet.c
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ int telnet_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 		bb_show_usage();
 
 	xmove_fd(create_and_connect_stream_or_die(host, port), netfd);
+	printf("Connected to %s.\n", host);
 
 	setsockopt_keepalive(netfd);
 
-- 
2.1.4



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