From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 26 00:18:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA18549 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA18543 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA01058; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:16:01 +1000 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:16:01 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199707260716.RAA01058@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: Whats happened to ping? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I wrote this, but it's wrong: > >> Also, if ping isn't receiving any replies, it's impossible to kill >> it with a simple keyboard interrupt (SIGINT). I don't think that >> was the case before. > >It fails like that under 2.2-stable, but not under -current. Thanks >to sef for pointing out the mistake. Sorry for the bad information. This is wrong too :-). SIGINT handling was broken for a short time in both 2.2-"stable" and -current. The diffs between 2.2 and -current are large because merging of fixes and bugs into 2.2 is very disorganized. Bruce