On: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

[cratermoon]

There's also /dev/tcp in Linux

    exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
    echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nhost: www.google.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" >&5
    cat <&5

[Zambyte → cratermoon]

/dev/tcp does not exist in Linux.

    ls /dev/tcp

It is an abstraction in GNU Bash.

[cratermoon → Zambyte]

Pardon, you're correct.

[WD-42 → cratermoon]

It’s still really cool. I had no idea that existed