Re: Piping files to ncat under MacOS/BSD

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:55:30PM +0200, Henri Doreau wrote:
> I just noticed that ncat an inconsistent behavior in ncat when
> switching between the different nsock engines.
>
> shell1:~$ ncat -l localhost 8080
>
> shell2:~$ ncat --nsock-engine=select localhost 8080 < /etc/hosts #
> exit after transfer
> shell2:~$ ncat --nsock-engine=poll localhost 8080 < /etc/hosts # exit
> after transfer
> shell2:~$ ncat --nsock-engine=kqueue localhost 8080 < /etc/hosts #
> hangs after transfer
>
> kevent() is kind enough to tell how far we are from EOF on vnodes and
> it should be easy to report EOF conditions to the caller. I'll
> unfortunately lack time to do it during the next few days but wanted
> to report it and provide initial information about this bug.

Is this something that should be handled in Nsock (when at EOF, make the
iod readable, so that the reading callback can notice the EOF), or in
some code that is specific to Ncat and kqueue?

David Fifield
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