Re: implementing bash's magic

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:31:55AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> [Lookups like /dev/{tcp,udp}/host/port]
> 
> I have written a translator, which implements exactly this: netio.
> Can be fetched from
> http://duesseldorf.ccc.de/~moritz/files/netio-0.2.tar.gz.

Ok, this is simple enough to be in one single file like fakeroot in
directory trans/.  Can you make a patch for that?  I am not sure if netio is
a good name, but I don't have a better suggestion either right now.  Please
also clean up cruft like my_malloc, we just use malloc and check it's return
value in place.  To better match what bash provides we would need to make
the protocol an option rather than a directory in the filesystem (as it
seems to be now).  If you like both behaviours, you might want to keep the
catch-all-protocol behaviour as an option.  Also add a patch for MAKEDEV to
set up /dev/tcp and /dev/udp.

Thanks,
Marcus

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