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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >> 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.

Or just a special option that spits out the ping statistics every N
packets.

But I don't really see what this ping has to offer, we already do most
of it, and the little we don't could be easily added.