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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:25:50 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>,
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Cc: "Dag-Erling C. Smxf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c
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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 11:05:08PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> >     The problems we've had with an unlimited -c has been more one of 
> >     forgetfullness... a user will start a ping going and forget to kill
> >     it.  It would be nice if ping did *NOT* default to an 'infinite' count,
> >     even if users are allowed to specify an option to set an infinite count.
> 
> POLA. Everybody else's ping has an infinite count by default.

This is not true.  I've seen 'em go from 3 and upwards, and I've also
seen 'em report just "elvis is alive." :-)

I agree with Matt's suggestion.  -c 0 for infinity, perhaps?

Eivind.