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Remove unix domain socket support from cat(1)

Added by sevan over 7 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

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Normal
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Userland
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Start date:
08/01/2016
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Introduced in FreeBSD1 and inherited in DragonFly BSD, cat(1) has the ability to utilise a unix domain socket but the usecase is somewhat limited & better served by other tools eg netcat. Attached diff removes the functionality & restores previous behaviour. This feature is exclusive to FreeBSD & DragonFly BSD and has not been adopted by the other BSDs.

[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/bin/cat/cat.c?r1=78732&r2=83482&view=patch


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patch-dfbsd-cat-nosocket.txt (4.32 KB) patch-dfbsd-cat-nosocket.txt sevan, 08/01/2016 06:04 PM
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Updated by tautolog over 7 years ago

I have actually used this feature before, for test scripts for a network API, but I still support removal because it could reduce attack vectors and attack surface. I use netcat now, just as suggested.

On Aug 1, 2016, at 7:09 PM, wrote:

Issue #2933 has been reported by sevan.

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Submit #2933: Remove unix domain socket support from cat(1)
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2933

  • Author: sevan
  • Status: New
  • Priority: Normal
  • Assignee:
  • Category: Userland
  • Target version:
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    Introduced in FreeBSD1 and inherited in DragonFly BSD, cat(1) has the ability to utilise a unix domain socket but the usecase is somewhat limited & better served by other tools eg netcat. Attached diff removes the functionality & restores previous behaviour. This feature is exclusive to FreeBSD & DragonFly BSD and has not been adopted by the other BSDs.

[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/bin/cat/cat.c?r1=78732&r2=83482&view=patch

---Files--------------------------------
patch-dfbsd-cat-nosocket.txt (4.32 KB)

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