From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 20:29:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08529 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08486 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-55.camalott.com [208.229.74.55]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29570; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:29:50 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA28804; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:28:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:28:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808280328.WAA28804@detlev.UUCP> To: frank@exit.com CC: bsmith@bfmni.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com> (message from Frank Mayhar on Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. > I dunno, it sounds like change for the sake of change to me. This > would be annoying in the extreme; I use infinite pings almost daily. I agree. I've got a few scripts that rely on the BSD ping behaviour, that run on many machines. I'm sure most admins do. A personal alias is the way to go on this case. > I would have less objection to a change making the ping run for, > say, six or eight hours before automatically shutting off. That's > long enough (for my purposes) that I would probably never hit the > auto-shutoff time, and it still quits by itself after a while. I disagree. An auto-shutoff violates POLA. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message