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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
