Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:57:17 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats happened to ping? Message-ID: <33D8F70D.63DABEB6@whistle.com> References: <199707251537.KAA28194@ns.tar.com> <199707251636.JAA00656@austin.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > > > It seems that there have recently been changes to the sematics of > > "ping -c N". Unless I'm mistaken, the old behavior was that "ping -c N" > > meant try to send N packets. Now it means keep trying until N packets > > are actually sent. > > > > The practical effect of this is that "ping -c N" might loop endlessly, > > if, for example, the network is down and the sendto fails. > > Also, if ping isn't receiving any replies, it's impossible to kill > it with a simple keyboard interrupt (SIGINT). I don't think that > was the case before. > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth this was a case we tested.. sean? bruce? I think we need to re-open the patient...
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