Re: ncat broadcast support?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:52:31AM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> Compiled this on Win32 (Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express). It wouldn't  
> build at first, due to some linker errors and a whole slew of error  
> constants referenced in a system include file not being defined (I ended  
> up copy-and-pasting the definitions from elsewhere. Not pretty, and not  
> correct, but it shouldn't have affected this, since the constants  
> weren't referenced anywhere else).
>
> Oddly, though, I had success sending broadcast messages both with and  
> without the new --broadcast flag on Windows! Can anyone confirm with an  
> unpatched build that this works? Maybe Windows sockets don't need  
> SO_BROADCAST set? I just don't know enough about it.

This looks good, and thanks for the patch. I'm going to double-check it
on Windows and then merge it. The only difference is that I don't want
to add a --broadcast option to Ncat. I'm just going to set the option
unconditionally.

David Fifield
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