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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: ping with usec resolution
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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.

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

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