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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:26:39 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r368045 - in head: . etc/mtree rescue/rescue sbin sbin/ping sbin/ping/tests sbin/ping6 sbin/ping6/tests tools/build/mk
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 8:37 AM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> > >
>> > >  I think you should add a LINKS=... here so people script which uses
>> > > ping6 won't break (and of course adding support in the code to do ipv6
>> > > ping if progname is ping6 if this isn't the case).
>> > >
>> > >  Cheers,
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, that would make sense.  But for how long?  Would the ping6 hard
>> link
>> > stick around forever, or eventually be removed in some future version of
>> > FreeBSD?
>>
>>  I have no opinion on this matter.
>>  But since ping6 was present for a very long time I guess we're stuck
>> with it for a long time too.
>>
>
> Do you have an opinion on whether there should be a /rescue/ping6 link
> too?
>

Yes. It should, imho.

Warner

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