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fix(make): probe the dev database with /dev/tcp instead of nc #21

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# Start the API with Air hot-reload. The database is the shared one in the dev
# cluster, so `make forward-db` must already be running in another terminal —
# checked here because otherwise the failure is a bare "connection refused".
# The probe is bash's /dev/tcp rather than nc: netcat is not installed by
# default on every distro, and a missing nc made this check report the tunnel
# as down when it was up.
dev:
@nc -z localhost $(DB_PORT) 2>/dev/null || { \
@bash -c 'exec 3<>/dev/tcp/localhost/$(DB_PORT)' 2>/dev/null || { \
echo "Nothing listening on localhost:$(DB_PORT)."; \
echo "Start the tunnel to the shared dev database first, in another terminal:"; \
echo ""; \
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