Bug 732883

Summary:	nc unnecessarily binds to a temporary unix source socket
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component:	nc	Assignee:	Petr Šabata <psabata>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description JW 2011-08-24 03:37:22 UTC

Description of problem:
Even when one doesn't supply a "-s" option to nc, and when the "-U" option is supplied, nc attempts to bind to a temporary unix socket. This is wrong, unnecessary, misleading, and broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
nc-1.100-2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo x | nc -uU some-unix-domain-socket-file-set-for-dgram
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
1. fails

Expected results:
1. should work

Additional info:
This nc program is really badly written. Although there is error handling there is no error output.  So when the bind() in unix_bind() fails then nobody gets told anything. There could be perror()'s just about everywhere a failure is detected but there are none.  One has to resort to strace to see what is going on.

Also, binding to a source doesn't work for unix domain sockets anyhow.  So one has to wonder why this code has been added.

A simple fix is firstly to remove the temporary source path that gets created in the absence of a "-s" option. Secondly, to only do the bind() portion in unix_bind() is the path argument is set and is non empty.

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Comment 2 JW 2012-08-08 03:43:54 UTC

needs fixing, does not need closing

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Comment 4 Petr Šabata 2013-07-04 07:42:42 UTC

F18 and newer don't ship with this package.
Switching back to F17.

Comment 5 JW 2013-07-04 07:49:38 UTC

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nc6-1.0-16

Comment 6 Petr Šabata 2013-07-04 09:12:05 UTC

nc6 is a different package and doesn't support UNIX sockets at all.
What issue are you having with it?

Comment 7 Petr Šabata 2013-07-31 07:09:26 UTC

*** Bug 846527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***