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From: Avleen Vig <spam-pr@silverwraith.com>
Subject: Re: bin/46501: Ping exits 2 when it should exit 1
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The following reply was made to PR bin/46501; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Avleen Vig <spam-pr@silverwraith.com>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, "" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/46501: Ping exits 2 when it should exit 1
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:45:05 -0800 (PST)

 On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
 
 > RETURN VALUES
 >      The ping utility returns an exit status of zero if at least one response
 >      was heard from the specified host; a status of two if the transmission
 > ----------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >      was successful but no responses were received; or another value (from
 >      <sysexits.h>) if an error occurred.
 
 My sincerest apologies. I think I'm going completely mad.
 I don't know how I read that as 'exists one if the...'.
 
 It still seems to make little sense to have it exit(2) if nothing will
 cause it to exit(1).
 But I shan't argue this further. Thanks folks. Sorry for the hassle.

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