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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:35:50 +0100
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping with usec resolution
Message-ID:  <20020311183550.C44454@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3C8CD5CD.97242550@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:05:33AM -0800
References:  <200203111005.g2BA5xB40396@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20020311021151.F211@nexus.root.com> <20020311112209.A40505@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <3C8CD5CD.97242550@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:05:33AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:11:51AM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> > > >I'm looking for a ping with usec (microsecond) resolution
> > > >(as Redhat 7.2 is using). Could FreeBSD have it too? Anyone
> > > >got the source for it?
> > >
> > >    FreeBSD's ping has had microsecond resolution since version 1.
> > 
> > Oh yeah. Sorry. I totally overlooked. Its just the format that changes
> > (dynamically to usec when it falls below 1 ms) in the linux version.
> 
> This would make it harder to write scripts that process the
> output in mixed formats.

Yes, indeed. Undesirable featurism, actually.

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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