Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: bsmith@bfmni.com (Brad Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com> In-Reply-To: <006601bdd14c$904d0bd0$6403a8c0@comstyle.com> from Brad Smith at "Aug 26, 98 07:52:15 pm"
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Brad Smith wrote: > Maybe make it like Microsoft's PING where it pings 4 times unless you use > the -t option. > -t Ping the specifed host until interrupted. I dunno, it sounds like change for the sake of change to me. This would be annoying in the extreme; I use infinite pings almost daily. 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. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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