Ping puzzle

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:44:34PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:

> Here's a bizarre puzzle that I've been trying  to  solve  on  several
> linux boxen:  How does a parent process read the stderr of /bin/ping?

You might like to look at fping, and perhaps smokeping.

http://www.fping.com/
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/

You might like to eat a ham sandwich and drink a beer.  Who's to know?

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