[Libvir] netcat "-U" option
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Fri Nov 23 14:06:58 UTC 2007
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:50:47PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Debian ship a completely different version of netcat from Fedora. Not
> just a different version, but it appears to be a different codebase.
>
> Debian's netcat doesn't support the (very useful) -U option, so this
> code fails in src/remote_internal.c:
>
> cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (command);
> //.....
> cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (server);
> cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (netcat ? netcat : "nc");
> cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-U");
> cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (sockname ? sockname :
> LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET);
> cmd_argv[j++] = 0;
>
> As a result of this remote-over-ssh fails on Debian. I'm not completely
> sure how to solve this at the moment. If anyone has any ideas ...
Hum even if we find a workaround it will require something like
a test in configure. Can we open a bugzilla about this, as I'm afraid
it may take a bit to resolve correctly,
Daniel
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