On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instead of changing the `-c' behaviour we can simply introduce a new
> option that will cause ping to stop after the default number of packets.
> FWIW, the `-C' letter is still unused in ping, so we can use it for
> that purpose.  This will make for a good mnemonics.  The corresponding
> long option might be more verbose, say `--default-count'.
>

I don't know that I'd bother putting a long option in.  Or make it
--zOMG-you-couldve-just-used-c4-why-are-you-using-a-long-option =)

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