[BusyBox] Re: network enabled awk
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon Aug 22 15:53:31 UTC 2005
On Monday 22 August 2005 06:52, castorpilot wrote:
> hello,
> I am trying to add network capabilities to awk (ie gawk-like special
> file /inet/protocol/lport/host/rport).
> I don't really see why anybody else would need that, but do you think
> this might be of any use ?
>
> fred
*boggle*
1) This is a gnu extension, isn't it? (Did they network enable grep or sed?
How about dc?)
2) What on _earth_ would this kind of thing be used for?
3) Can you point to anything out there that actually got shipped which depends
on this?
Rob
More information about the busybox
mailing list