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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-09-05 16:54:08 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-09-05 16:54:08 +0000
commit36ea28e6dc827e6d26aa18f9e9474e59a03e1f92 (patch)
treec2a2380e561473bba708a14008d05630998fbf09 /usr.bin/nc
parent0f268fbfa2e09e63aff74d55e85dbb130181ee84 (diff)
document -w timeout; from cedric@
ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/nc')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/nc/nc.116
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/nc/nc.1 b/usr.bin/nc/nc.1
index f9a75e15066..29f506945cd 100644
--- a/usr.bin/nc/nc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/nc/nc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: nc.1,v 1.25 2003/08/08 10:13:33 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: nc.1,v 1.26 2003/09/05 16:54:07 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 David Sacerdote
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ Use UDP instead of the default option of TCP.
Have
.Nm
give more verbose output.
+.It Fl w Ar timeout
+If a connection and stdin are idle for more than
+.Ar timeout
+seconds, then the connection is silently closed.
+The
+.Fl w
+flag has no effect on the
+.Fl l
+option, i.e.\&
+.Nm
+will listen forever for a connection, with or without the
+.Fl w
+flag.
+The default is no timeout.
.It Fl x Ar proxy address Op :port
Requests that
.Nm