26 Mar
2020
26 Mar
'20
5:25 a.m.
On 3/24/20 3:47 AM, Derek Fawcus wrote:> One point being that one could
fork/exec a program with those fd's
attached to stdin/stdout and it could operate as a
normal filter, w/o
having to understand it was using a socket.
Hum. This is quite intriguing.
Now I'm wondering what sort of mistchif I could get up to doing things
with Bash (et al.) supporting /dev/tcp pseudo files.
(i.e. closing stdout [hence triggering a FIN], while
still reading
from stdin)
I like it.
Plus various other games achievable by replumbing
fd's.
Ya. There's quite a bit to think about here.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die