Re: [bug-inetutils] ping, --count=NUMBER

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > What do people think about making the NUMBER argument to --count
   > optional?  The default value could be 3.

   This will create a minor incompatibility with another ping
   implementations.  I mean, some people may be using this in their
   script:

      ping -c 4

   which will break when -c is changed to accept optional argument.

Eh, why would this break anything?  In the above example, you
explictly give an argument to --count.  I was thinking about allowing,
  
  ping -c gnu.org

which would ping gnu.org 3 times.