Heads up: nc replaced by nmap ncat

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jul 19 11:30:35 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:27:14PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> 2012/7/19 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> > Libvirt needs to be able to run the following command
> >
> >   # nc -U /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
> 
> It could use socat:

This isn't something that can simply be fixed in libvirt in rawhide
because you need to consider cross-version compatibility. Every
existing deployed version of libvirt in every distro will be unable
to connect to rawhide, even if we changed libvirt in rawhide to use
socat.

Regards,
Daniel
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