Description of problem: 'nc' doesn't honor the '-w <val>' argument for timing out connection failures Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.82-fc4.1, 1.84-3.2 (FC5 source recompiled onto FC4) How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: Create a DROP firewall on a test machine for a port. 1. nc -w 2 <test machine> <dropped port> Actual results: Command hangs until TCP connect timeout Expected results: Previous versions of nc (in particular 1.10), and documentation and help state that 'Timeout for connects and final net reads'. It is not exiting or timing out after the defined '-w' period of seconds if the connection attempt hangs (as when a machine is under load, or trying to connect to a dropped port). Additional info:
Already fixed in rawhide 1.84-4 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182736 ***