Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:27:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav ) Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <199808272127.WAA14623@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "26 Aug 1998 23:05:08 %2B0200." <xzp90kbfo8r.fsf@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no>
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> Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > The problems we've had with an unlimited -c has been more one of
> > forgetfullness... a user will start a ping going and forget to kill
> > it. It would be nice if ping did *NOT* default to an 'infinite' count,
> > even if users are allowed to specify an option to set an infinite count.
>
> POLA. Everybody else's ping has an infinite count by default.
Slowaris doesn't, and I find it *really* irritating. I guess it
depends on what you're used to.
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
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