On: Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known

[karlzt]

talk is great and cool but why they added it to the base system?

[shawn_w → karlzt]

Probably in the base installation because it's a standard POSIX utility.

[petee → karlzt]

Without digging deep, it's an optional POSIX utility; likely still included for historical reasons, and/or a couple developers still use it somewhere

[mike_hock → karlzt]

And if it's supposed to be used to talk locally, why doesn't it use Unix sockets?

[shawn_w → mike_hock]

It's not limited to local chat.