Date: 26 Aug 1998 23:43:45 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>=?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?= Matt Dillon" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, "Dag-Erling C. Smxf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <xzp1zq3fmge.fsf@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:25:50 %2B0200" References: <199808262100.OAA06770@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzp90kbfo8r.fsf@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no> <19980826232550.08595@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes: > On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 11:05:08PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > 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." :-) SysV ping does that unless you use -s, but if you do it goes on for ever like verybody else. Microsmurf ping stops after four pings which is the single most annoying feature of that crappy OS. Well, OK, I exaggerated, so sue me. > I agree with Matt's suggestion. -c 0 for infinity, perhaps? Perhaps. Better than introducing yet another command-line option (and it's pretty intuitive, kinda) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.nohelp
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