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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 04:37:46 +1100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 15:18:59 -0800
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>>  Modified:    sbin/ping  ping.c
>>  Log:
>>  Fixed backgrounding of ping, which was broken by the ^T changes in rev.1.3.
>
>May as well be in 2.2, although it has been broken for 2 years with hardly
>anyone noticing.

   I noticed. I worked around the problem by redirecting everything to
/dev/null (I was only interested in the return status in that case).
   Very annoying bug.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project