git: cat(1): Remove UNIX domain socket support in favor of nc(1)

Aaron LI aly at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Thu Oct 22 07:23:34 PDT 2026


commit 912938764f09879edd2505b54217ad652af17967
Author: Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me>
Date:   Thu Oct 22 13:15:55 2026 +0800

    cat(1): Remove UNIX domain socket support in favor of nc(1)
    
    This feature was inherited from FreeBSD and added by Matthew Dillon in
    2001, before nc(1) was ported from OpenBSD in 2005.  Now remove this
    feature in favor of nc(1), which also handles such scenarios better.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2933

Summary of changes:
 bin/cat/cat.1 | 14 +-----------
 bin/cat/cat.c | 68 -----------------------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 81 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/912938764f09879edd2505b54217ad652af17967


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