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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c ping.8 
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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 13:04:59 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <97Mar2.120022pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Bill Fenner writes:
: >only once a second
: 
: Unless you're using "ping -f", which the superuser may do, in which case
: you're doing it as fast as the network allows you to.

Ummmm, iff -f gives you ICMP packets that aren't ECHOREPLYs *AND* you
are running -v.  Otherwise no additional system calls happen due to
the short-circuit nature of C.

However, like I said before, I've changed it because it took less time
than arguing :-).

Warner