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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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