From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 27 23:29:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02324 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1586.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02317 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA00227; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:27:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:27:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: frank@exit.com, bsmith@bfmni.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c In-Reply-To: <199808280328.WAA28804@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat, since, while this may be -hackers material, nobody ain't gonna du nut'n about it] On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > I would have less objection to a change making the ping run for, > > say, six or eight hours before automatically shutting off. That's > > long enough (for my purposes) that I would probably never hit the > > auto-shutoff time, and it still quits by itself after a while. > > I disagree. An auto-shutoff violates POLA. Or, more strongly stated, it adheres to POMA. It is 100% guaranteed to shut-off when you least expect it and will find it the most puzzling trying to figure-out wtf happened. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message