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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > What are your thoughts on a BSD_ME_HARDER enviroment variable?
   > We could leave it on by default, and if you set it to nil, then
   > you would get GNUish behaviour.

   I don't quite understand its semantics.  E.g. what will
   BSD_ME_HARDER=0 and BSD_ME_HARDER=1 mean? And what is the default,
   when BSD_ME_HARDER is undefined (i.e. what you call "GNUish
   behaviour")?

It would work the same way as POSIXLY_CORRECLY.