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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:11:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting
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Hi!

> > > Wrong. man ping. ping -f doesn't do what you apparently think it does.
> > 
> > strace ping, you'll see it doing a 
> > 	setsockopt(7, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, [1], 8) = 0
> > 
> > on its socket.
> 
> Read the ping manual page. Then when you understand what ping -f does 
> come back and have a useful conversation.

But I guess it *would* be usefull to have -F option saying "feed data
as fast as possible", right? And it would be nice if this option did
not eat 100% cpu when possible, right?

So what he is asking for is pretty usefull behaviour.
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
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