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From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@wayne.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bug in ping?  ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:41 -0400
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If you ditch the Cygwin Ping I hope the Windows version can work better than 
the Windows version of Finger. If I execute finger from Cygwin I get a loop 
where the help text is executed about 3 times and no finger results are 
given. It took a distressingly long time before I realized there isn't a 
Cygwin finger and it's actually executing the Windows version which it can't 
do properly.

Cygwin does have "pinky" but it never works for me. Is pinky supposed to 
need a special server? Our site works for (Windows) finger but not Cygwin 
pinky and I don't know whose fault that is.

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Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:53
Subject: Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed


> 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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