From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 09:08:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00579 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cassiopeia.caprica.com ([207.137.48.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00544 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from exit.com by cassiopeia.caprica.com (8.6.10/95022701) id FAA15389; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:29:20 -0800 Received: (from frank@localhost) by exit.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id IAA14820; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:35:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c To: bsmith@bfmni.com (Brad Smith) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <006601bdd14c$904d0bd0$6403a8c0@comstyle.com> from Brad Smith at "Aug 26, 98 07:52:15 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Smith wrote: > Maybe make it like Microsoft's PING where it pings 4 times unless you use > the -t option. > -t Ping the specifed host until interrupted. I dunno, it sounds like change for the sake of change to me. This would be annoying in the extreme; I use infinite pings almost daily. I would have less objection to a change making the ping run for, say, six or eight hours before automatically shutting off. That's long enough (for my purposes) that I would probably never hit the auto-shutoff time, and it still quits by itself after a while. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message