Re: "-w deadline" bug in ping/iputils- i will provide fix if you can tell me where owner of iputils is. Thanks.

Hello.

Cloutier, Joseph (Joseph) wrote:

I have made a fix for the "-w deadline" issue to iputils-s20101006.tar.bz2.  There are 4 places in the code with the fix, identified by my name, Joe Cloutier- ALU.

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 There are 2 bugs fixed:
 *       For flood pings if the "-w" option is set then more pings than "-c x" are sent out.
 *       The "-w x" timer should be set after he last "-c x" ping is sent out.

Is this a real bug?

If both of -c COUNT and -w TIMEOUT are specified, ping exits by
timer _OR_ by the counter regardless of -f option.

If you want to ping really COUNT times, try -W TIMEOUT option.


... And please send your changes in the patch (or unified diff;
diff -u) format with your appropriate "sign-off" line, next time.


Thanks.

--yoshfuji