Public bug reported:
Currently ping takes the last value supplied by '-c x' as the number of
ECHO_REQUEST packets to send. If '-c' is not specified it defaults to 0
(false), and has no upper limit on ECHO_REQUEST packets sent. However,
once a value for '-c' has been specified on the command line, such as in
a bash alias, the value cannot become unlimited due to line 110 of
ping_common.c - which checks for 'npackets <= 0'.
Could we change this to 'npackets < 0', to allow later options to change
this back to the unlimited option?
Ubuntu 10.4, iputils package up to date as of today.
** Affects: iputils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: enhancement ping
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Support changing packet count on command line to unlimited
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655411
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