Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 13:04:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c ping.8 Message-ID: <E0w1HVD-0005hs-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Mar 1997 12:00:21 PST." <97Mar2.120022pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> References: <97Mar2.120022pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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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
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