Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:28:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: frank@exit.com Cc: bsmith@bfmni.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <199808280328.WAA28804@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com> (message from Frank Mayhar on Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT)) References: <199808271535.IAA14820@exit.com>
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>> 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 agree. I've got a few scripts that rely on the BSD ping behaviour, that run on many machines. I'm sure most admins do. A personal alias is the way to go on this case. > 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. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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