Merge ping+ping6 and traceroue+traceroute6 to single utilities?

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Sat Jan 11 19:40:24 UTC 2014


On 11 Jan 2014, at 18:22 , Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hello, Mark.
> You wrote 11 января 2014 г., 17:32:41:
> 
> MM> The ping6 and traceroute6 could be made just links to a common utility
> MM> and turn on the -6 option implicitly. For a transition period I could
> MM> live with the -4 being a default, if that would be a consensus.
>  Exactly my point of view.

Question — will you preserve (conflicting) command line options and if it’s one utility and I use a hostname how will it know how to interpret them?

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