Florian Bezdeka [off-list ref] writes:
I guess proxy support was forgotten when the referenced change was
made. Any chance we can avoid closing stdout when running "in proxy
mode" to restore backward compatibility?
See the last paragraph of
https://lore.kernel.org/git/YS1Bni+QuZBOgkUI@coredump.intra.peff.net/ (local)
Nobody brought anything new to the table since then (the original
discussion was from Aug 2021) to change the conclusion that socat
was not doing the right thing in its default form.
Thanks.