GNU netcat in make tests

[Alex Bligh]

On 25 Jul 2014, at 07:28, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:

> Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> on Fri, 2014/07/25 09:02:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Damien Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> In the meantime, maybe we could avoid the use of GNU netcat althother
>>> by using a ssh-agent's socket in the tests...
>> 
>> I got halfway through implementing this before realising that it is
>> insufficient - we need to tests UNIX domain socket to TCP forwarding
>> and ssh-add/agent can't do this.
> 
> Perhaps we should rely on OpenBSD netcat and skip tests if GNU netcat is
> found.

Perhaps use socat instead? The correct netcat/socat could be
detected in configure.

-- 
Alex Bligh




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