Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:36:27 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whats happened to ping? Message-ID: <199707251636.JAA00656@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199707251537.KAA28194@ns.tar.com> References: <199707251537.KAA28194@ns.tar.com>
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> 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
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