From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 15 15:01:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27015 for current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27004 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00489; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:00:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707152200.PAA00489@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Ping with standard deviation? To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:00:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707151921.PAA12803@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jul 15, 97 03:21:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just modified `ping' to output standard deviation in addition to the > other statistics. Does anyone out there think that this would be > useful in the general case? I like it; so long as we retain a convention of using a space as a token seperator and a space or a slash as a numeric seperator, it won't even damage scripts. > It does increase the size of the ping executable a few K since we have > to link against the math library. There was no way to calculate this with integer math? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.