Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 02:37:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new ping option Message-ID: <403.860578676@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Apr 1997 21:16:53 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970408210837.303B-100000@jg.dyn.ml.org>
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> I'd like to see a new ping option which does the opposite of -a; includes > a bell character when the packet is lost. -A seems to be the proper name > for such an option. This whole direction for ping is a complete and total crock. :-( If you want to make this general, have ping(1) return a status on a single failure or a single success, then choosing to beep, fart, whistle, flash or provide whatever form of notification most pleases you. There is NO reason I can see for building this behavior into ping, and whomever added the beep (well, OK, it was Bruce Murphy - CVS doesn't allow you to play coy very convincingly about this kind of thing :-) should probably be shot at dawn, but I suppose we could also spare him and simply back out that most un-UNIX-like change to ping. :-) Jordan
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