Re: [bug-inetutils] ping: -c 0 vs. -c 3 as default..

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > Does anyone rember why we changed the default behaviour for ping from
   > -c3 to -c0?
   > 
   > I'd like tto write a very short rationale for it.. Cause I always
   > forgEt why we changed it..

   Your initial reasons (to change from -c0 to -c4) can be found in
   this thread:

     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2006-11/msg00010.html>

   But later on you asked why this changed had been done and stated
   you hated it:

     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2008-06/msg00003.html>

   Then Sergey reverted it (git commit aaa12c18) to match traditional
   implementations. Latest netkit's (0.17) ping does not stop after 4
   pings, neither does iputils' ping.

   I've also got a bug report in Debian recently about this:

     <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524011>

   And I don't think I've ever liked the change, and I'm happy it has
   been reverted now, so I think I'll be packaging a git snapshot for
   Debian pretty soon.

Guillem, super thanks for that!  I remeber that we have been flipping
it back and forth.  Maybe we can do a compromise, by having a
enviroment variable that will switch the behaviour back and forth,
BSD_ME_HARDER or something.

Again, thanks for doing the archeology!