[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools/netconsole: make a bit more robust and use ncb when possible

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 16 January 2009 03:37:40 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <1231493902-7043-1-git-send-email-vapier@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?

people have to manually build ncb, plus ncb is a listen-only daemon.  you 
still need nc to do the transmission.
-mike
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