Re: [Libvir] netcat "-U" option

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,