Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <1231493902-7043-1-git-send-email-vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote:
> The netcat utility likes to exit when it receives an empty packet (as it
> thinks this means EOF).  This can easily occur when working with command
> line editing as this behavior will be triggered when using backspace.  Or
> with tabs and command line completion.  Since the local ncb util does not
> have this "feature" and it supports broadcast udp, default to using that
> rather than netcat.

When would "ncb" not be available?

What else are the implications when using ncb versus netcat?

Why does your script tools/netconsole so far use netcat only, when we
have the (as I read it) much better ncb anyway?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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