[bug-inetutils] Re: more icmp probes for ping?

[Simon Josefsson]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> writes:

>> it has a multithreading system, so every time when you
>> press enter and APing is running shows information about time elapsed,
>> target, min, max average rtt ... 
>
> I don't quite get what it has to do with multithreading, but the
> same information is displayed by any flavor of ping utility, as far as
> I know.

I think he refers to the final output of ping:

--- lvs-vip-1.sys.kth.se ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.836/10.908/15.706/2.796 ms

Being able to print that without exiting and re-starting ping may be
useful, although it doesn't strike me as something extremely useful.  I
mean, C-c UP RET isn't that hard.

/Simon