On 2008-06-13, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
Exactly. > However, I think it's possible to get equivalent behavior > from Windows ping if you give it the right command line parameters. The feature of Cygwin's (Unix's) ping that I found particularly useful in my testing was the printing of the sequence numbers. I couldn't find a way to make the Windows version do that. Regards, Gary -- 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/
