Summary: | arpping doesn't honour timeouts causing latest /etc/init.d/net.* scripts to hang. | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | erik quanstrom <quanstro> |
Component: | [OLD] baselayout | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
Status: | VERIFIED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | arpping.c for iputils-021109-r3 with select replacing signals. |
Description
erik quanstrom
2006-08-20 07:00:44 UTC
Created attachment 94695 [details, diff]
arpping.c for iputils-021109-r3 with select replacing signals.
this is a replacement for arpping.c rather than a patch because the changes were pretty extensive. the changes, however, boil down to replacing signals
with select to implement timeouts. this should be more reliable and more resistant to c library changes, operating system and the like.
one gotcha. the manual says that arpping -c 1 quits after sending a single
packet. i think it's a little strange, but that is what the man page says.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144526 *** Dupe... |