[DragonFlyBSD - Submit #2933] (In Progress) Remove unix domain socket support from cat(1)

[liweitianux]

Issue #2933 has been updated by liweitianux.

Status changed from New to In Progress

Interesting. This feature was added by Matthew Dillon in 2001: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/cbf2d71f0ddb580fec7f1038a4f10ccbccb987d2. That was before @nc(1)@ was ported from OpenBSD in 2005, so I think it's okay to remove this @cat(1)@ feature in favor of @nc(1)@ :)

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Submit #2933: Remove unix domain socket support from cat(1)
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2933#change-14887

* Author: sevan
* Status: In Progress
* Priority: Normal
* Category: Userland
* Target version: 6.4
* Start date: 2016-08-01
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Introduced in FreeBSD[1] and inherited in DragonFly BSD, cat(1) has the ability to utilise a unix domain socket but the usecase is somewhat limited & better served by other tools eg netcat. Attached diff removes the functionality & restores previous behaviour. This feature is exclusive to FreeBSD & DragonFly BSD and has not been adopted by the other BSDs.

[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/bin/cat/cat.c?r1=78732&r2=83482&view=patch

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patch-dfbsd-cat-nosocket.txt (4.32 KB)


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