Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:53:53 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in ping?  ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 13 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> ping does not have a maintainer currently so, unless someone wants to take
>> over maintainership, it is not likely to be changed and bug reports against
>> ping are not likely to be acted upon.
>
>I'm wondering if we need it at all.  It doesn't exactly have more
>functionality than Window's on-board ping, plus, it uses RAW sockets.
>Raw socket I/O is restricted to administrative users since Windows XP.
>So Cygwin's ping can't work for non-admin users on XP and later.
>I'd rather drop it entirely from the distro.

The only mildly nice thing about it is that it works sort of like the
UNIX version of ping.  However, I think it's possible to get equivalent behavior
from Windows ping if you give it the right command line parameters.

So, maybe a shell wrapper is all that's needed.  I'll look into that.

cgf

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