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| author | dg <dg@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-11-29 16:09:56 +0000 |
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| committer | dg <dg@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-11-29 16:09:56 +0000 |
| commit | 2350bbf295463f5bfd35d0f1af489c68243ef7a6 (patch) | |
| tree | a190e01cbe99ece0d468fdb44aa007e29e9452e4 /sbin/ping | |
| parent | b360c63549f36ae42b45946e378dc4b07eec3b25 (diff) | |
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In past releases of FreeBSD, I have used the exit status of "ping" to
determine whether a connection to a given machine is up or not.
In FreeBSD 2.0 (and therefore, I assume, BSD 4.4) the exit code of ping
is always zero, even if no packets were received.
I would like to propose the following change to /usr/src/sbin/ping/ping.c
to restore this useful behaviour:
Submitted by: Denis Fortin
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ping/ping.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping.c b/sbin/ping/ping.c index b7aebfe..256d704 100644 --- a/sbin/ping/ping.c +++ b/sbin/ping/ping.c @@ -755,7 +755,10 @@ finish() tcsetattr (0, TCSANOW, &ts); } - exit(0); + if (nreceived) + exit(0); + else + exit(2); } #ifdef notdef |
