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

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 8:37 AM Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

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>> > >  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).
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>> > >  Cheers,
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>> > > Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
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>> > Yes, that would make sense.  But for how long?  Would the ping6 hard
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>> > FreeBSD?
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>>  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.
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> Do you have an opinion on whether there should be a /rescue/ping6 link
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Yes. It should, imho.

Warner

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