ncat broadcast support?

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

I would like to use ncat in UDP mode to send broadcast datagrams, but I 
get "permission denied" errors, even running as root. I understand that 
there are differences in how to call the underlying system calls when 
connecting to broadcast, and I'm willing to attempt a patch, but I don't 
know where to start. Could someone give me a quick pointer to the files 
I'd have to change to get this to work?

doesnotwork# ncat -vvvvv --udp 192.168.1.255 161
Ncat: Version 5.30BETA1 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
NSOCK (0.0010s) UDP connection requested to 255.255.255.255:161 (IOD #1) 
EID 8
NSOCK (0.0010s) Callback: CONNECT ERROR [Permission denied (13)] for EID 
8 [255.255.255.255:161]
Ncat: Permission denied.

Thanks for any assistance (or "No, that's a bad idea," as the case may be)

Dan
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