svn commit: r368045 - in head: . etc/mtree rescue/rescue sbin sbin/ping sbin/ping/tests sbin/ping6 sbin/ping6/tests tools/build/mk

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 26 15:37:25 UTC 2020


> >
> > >  I think you should add a LINKS=... here so people script which uses
> > > ping6 won't break (and of course adding support in the code to do ipv6
> > > ping if progname is ping6 if this isn't the case).
> > >
> > >  Cheers,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that would make sense.  But for how long?  Would the ping6 hard link
> > stick around forever, or eventually be removed in some future version of
> > FreeBSD?
>
>  I have no opinion on this matter.
>  But since ping6 was present for a very long time I guess we're stuck
> with it for a long time too.
>

Do you have an opinion on whether there should be a /rescue/ping6 link too?


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