Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#53025 closed defect (fixed)

netcat @1.10_2 doesn't listen, exits with "Abort trap: 6"

Reported by: user454322 (Javier) Owned by: kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.5
Keywords: Cc:
Port: netcat

Description

Can't use netcat to listen for incoming connections. Trying to do so results on netcat exiting with status 134 and message Abort trap: 6.

Attached is the output of sudo dtruss -fn nc. 

$ uname -a
Darwin camotes 15.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.5.0: Tue Apr 19 18:36:36 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.50.21~8/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64


$ port installed | grep netcat
  netcat @1.10_2 (active)

$ nc -l 4040
Abort trap: 6

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nc-dtruss.txt​ (8.1 KB) - added by user454322 (Javier) 7 years ago.

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Change History (2)

Changed 7 years ago by user454322 (Javier)

Attachment: nc-dtruss.txt​ added

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Owner: set to kurthindenburg
Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

In de0704d5/macports-ports:

netcat: obsolete replaced_by gnetcat

This version of netcat is referred to as 1.10 and hasn't been updated
since 2007 and is unlikely to ever have another update.
The gnetcat port should actually be the netcat port.

invalidates these 2 tickets:
closes #53025
closes #43808

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