Noah Meyerhans writes ("Re: Bug#456192: ping -w -c and error responses weird
output"):
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:45:39PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms$
> > , pipe 3$
> > thule:~#
>
> The ", pipe 3" has actually been there all along, and I believe it's
> intentional. It is basically supposed to represent the number of
> outstanding echo requests that ping expects to be in transit at any
> given point. [...]
Oh, I see. Well, that's sensible except that surely it should be
printed in with the rest of the summary line. Ie, there shouldn't be
a newline after `time 2008ms' in my example.
> I don't believe it should be printing the pipe value in cases similar to
> the example you've provided...
It's not clear to me what it means in this case, yes.
Ian.
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