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| author | bz <bz@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-05-27 10:51:19 +0000 |
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| committer | bz <bz@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-05-27 10:51:19 +0000 |
| commit | 08921e6dda68b6e98a89e884f0903049ce3c6ba5 (patch) | |
| tree | 991405f7236fac6a4105ad280ef8b6df560f69ff /sbin/ping6/ping6.8 | |
| parent | 87fbf5762c02a0e9d828b5b8cd889c16d7ea8942 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-08921e6dda68b6e98a89e884f0903049ce3c6ba5.zip FreeBSD-src-08921e6dda68b6e98a89e884f0903049ce3c6ba5.tar.gz | |
Change the exit status for 0 and 2 to be the same as with ping(1)
and be usable in scripts, etc.
This also changes the semantics in case when we lose one of n packets.
In that case, before we exited by SIG, now we exit with return(0).
Submitted by: Gert Doering (gert space.net)
MFC after: 10 days
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping6/ping6.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ping6/ping6.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 index fc59591..fe57b99 100644 --- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 +++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 15, 2007 +.Dd May 27, 2008 .Dt PING6 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -409,7 +409,9 @@ option of The .Nm utility returns 0 on success (the host is alive), -and non-zero if the arguments are incorrect or the host is not responding. +2 if the transmission was successful but no responses were received, +any other non-zero value if the arguments are incorrect or +another error has occured. .Sh EXAMPLES Normally, .Nm |
