From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 26 16:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21025 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21019; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@backplane.com) Received: (dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.8.8/8.6.5) id QAA10086; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:58:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199808262358.QAA10086@apollo.backplane.com> To: bsmith@bfmni.com (Brad Smith) Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk :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. : :Brad aawwgh ahhgh yahhhwg! The list is contaminated! I kinda like an option better then '-c 0', though. -t isn't used, we might as well use it unless someone knows an option used by other UNIX's that does the same thing or if it conflicts with a -t used for ping by other UNIX's for other purposes. Currently both -c 0 and -t dump ping with 'invalid count' or 'illegal option', so the issue of the lack of backwards compatibility is the same either way. -Matt Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications (Please include original email in any response)