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From: mrm@optigfx.com (Mike Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: modification to /sbin/ping
Message-ID: <1868@optigfx.optigfx.com>
Date: 21 Sep 93 21:48:00 GMT
Sender: mrm@optigfx.optigfx.com
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If the line that contains
exit(0);
in the source for ping.c were changed to
if(nreceived)
exit(0);
else
exit(1);
then shell constructs such as
if /sbin/ping -c1 blort >/dev/null 2>&1
then
echo I can reach blort
else
echo blort is not paying attention
fi
would work. This would be convenient.
I'm hesitant to suggest this change because the last
few people who suggested that behavior other than
stock BSD might be good were burned at the stake...