From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 26 17:13:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23170 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23125; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from olvaldi.ifi.uio.no (2602@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.43]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA00541; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:43:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by olvaldi.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:43:45 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?= Matt Dillon" , "Dag-Erling C. Smxf8rgrav" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c References: <199808262100.OAA06770@freefall.freebsd.org> <19980826232550.08595@follo.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 26 Aug 1998 23:43:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:25:50 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAB23127 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eivind Eklund 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.no