[bug-inetutils] Re: Argpifying ping.

[Simon Josefsson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> It might be smart to make a note in TODO that ping and ping6 should
> share the majority of their parsing detailes instead of duplicating it
> in two places.  The only difference between the two should be that one
> works with IPv6 and the other with IPv4.  But that too should probobly
> be in a seperate patch.

Btw, why can't 'ping' support IPv6?  I know there is a tradition to
have a ping6 tool for IPv6, but it seems preferable to add support for
IPv6 straight into ping.  Is there anything that makes this impossible
or awkward to implement?

/Simon