Open sockets non-overlapped?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri May 19 20:21:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:17:56PM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote:
>On 5/19/06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote:
>>>Here's a trivial little patch for your consideration (while I wait for
>>>my copyright assignment to go through).
>>>
>>>It makes it so that cygwin sockets can be passed usefully to windows
>>>processes. Eg:
>>>$ cmd /c dir > /dev/tcp/localhost/5001
>>
>>AFAIK, /dev/tcp/localhost is neither a linux nor a cygwin construction.
>
>Did you try it?
>(It's a bash construction).

Yes, I tried it in zsh.  So, apparently it is bash-only.

cgf



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