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Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed


If you ditch the Cygwin Ping I hope the Windows version can work better than the Windows version of Finger. If I execute finger from Cygwin I get a loop where the help text is executed about 3 times and no finger results are given. It took a distressingly long time before I realized there isn't a Cygwin finger and it's actually executing the Windows version which it can't do properly.

Cygwin does have "pinky" but it never works for me. Is pinky supposed to need a special server? Our site works for (Windows) finger but not Cygwin pinky and I don't know whose fault that is.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:53
Subject: Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed



On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 13 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
ping does not have a maintainer currently so, unless someone wants to take
over maintainership, it is not likely to be changed and bug reports against
ping are not likely to be acted upon.

I'm wondering if we need it at all. It doesn't exactly have more functionality than Window's on-board ping, plus, it uses RAW sockets. Raw socket I/O is restricted to administrative users since Windows XP. So Cygwin's ping can't work for non-admin users on XP and later. I'd rather drop it entirely from the distro.

The only mildly nice thing about it is that it works sort of like the
UNIX version of ping. However, I think it's possible to get equivalent behavior
from Windows ping if you give it the right command line parameters.


So, maybe a shell wrapper is all that's needed. I'll look into that.

cgf

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