From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 27 15:21:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14417 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14013; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14623; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:27:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199808272127.WAA14623@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav ) cc: Matt Dillon , "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c In-reply-to: Your message of "26 Aug 1998 23:05:08 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:27:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAB14087 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Matt Dillon 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 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....