Re: Proposed small change for ping(8)

[Gregory Edigarov]

ping?
or no interest in this?

On 03/26/2015 02:34 PM, Gregory Edigarov wrote:

Hello,

This makes ping -v really verbose, telling about lost packets as they progress.

Index: ping.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ping/ping.8,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -p -u -r1.52 ping.8
--- ping.8      24 Mar 2014 11:11:49 -0000      1.52
+++ ping.8      26 Mar 2015 12:28:44 -0000
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Set the routing table to be used for out
 Verbose output.
 ICMP packets other than
 .Dv ECHO_REPLY
-that are received are listed.
+that are received are listed. Also reports lost packets as they go.
 .It Fl w Ar maxwait
 Specifies the maximum number of seconds to wait for responses
 after the last request has been sent.

Index: ping.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ping/ping.c,v
retrieving revision 1.118
diff -u -p -u -r1.118 ping.c
--- ping.c      23 Mar 2015 09:36:25 -0000      1.118
+++ ping.c      26 Mar 2015 12:28:44 -0000
@@ -576,6 +576,8 @@ catcher(int signo)
                nmissedmax = ntransmitted - nreceived - 1;
                if (!(options & F_FLOOD) && (options & F_AUD_MISS))
                        write(STDERR_FILENO, "\a", 1);
+               if (!(options & F_FLOOD) && (options & F_VERBOSE))
+                       write(STDOUT_FILENO, "Lost packet\n",12);
        }
        errno = save_errno;
 }