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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:05:33 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping with usec resolution
Message-ID:  <3C8CD5CD.97242550@mindspring.com>
References:  <200203111005.g2BA5xB40396@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20020311021151.F211@nexus.root.com> <20020311112209.A40505@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:11:51AM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> > >I'm looking for a ping with usec (microsecond) resolution
> > >(as Redhat 7.2 is using). Could FreeBSD have it too? Anyone
> > >got the source for it?
> >
> >    FreeBSD's ping has had microsecond resolution since version 1.
> 
> Oh yeah. Sorry. I totally overlooked. Its just the format that changes
> (dynamically to usec when it falls below 1 ms) in the linux version.

This would make it harder to write scripts that process the
output in mixed formats.

-- Terry

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