Re: ncat udp

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:07:21PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> Measuring idleness with --exec would be difficult, because we currently
> give up control of the socket when we hand it to the child process. I
> can see a solution where we fork off a "caretaker" process that shuttles
> data to and from the child process (like we do in a thread under
> Windows) and can measure for idleness. This is rather cumbersome, but it
> would also enable --exec to work with --ssl, which it doesn't currently.

This would also allow the logging options (--output and --hex-dump) to
work with --exec and --sh-exec.

David Fifield

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