On Apr 17 10:46, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Yes, sure, but in that case, why not use the native ping? AFAIK the
ICMP API doesn't provide all the data you need to emulate the usual
UNIX ping output anyway.
AFAIK, the native (e.g. the shipped-with-windows) ping doesn't use the
ICMP dll either. That's why I installed FPing. However, FPing (or even
shipped-with-windows ping) are native, not cygwin progs. I don't like
using native progs at all, ever, if I can help it. They always lead to
surprises: pty issues in terminals, issues with pathnames, difficulties
in complex commands (pipes |), etc.
But it was just an idle thought.
No, it's not idle, it's a valid argument. The problem is, ping isn't
useful as is for non-Admin users, and the package is orphaned. That's
why I think we should drop it from the distro. If somebody takes over
maintainance and comes up with a patch which makes ping work for
non-Admin users again, there's nothing to say against a Cygwin ping. In
the current state it just leads to confusion, though.
Corinna