[bug-inetutils] Re: Argpifying ping.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > It might be smart to make a note in TODO that ping and ping6
   > should share the majority of their parsing detailes instead of
   > duplicating it in two places.  The only difference between the
   > two should be that one works with IPv6 and the other with IPv4.
   > But that too should probobly be in a seperate patch.

   Btw, why can't 'ping' support IPv6?  I know there is a tradition to
   have a ping6 tool for IPv6, but it seems preferable to add support
   for IPv6 straight into ping.  Is there anything that makes this
   impossible or awkward to implement?

I don't know.  Is it "easy" to detect IPv6 vs. IPv4?  If so, maybe it
would be possible.  The might hold for any other FOO vs. FOO6
utilities we might have.  It is a good idea though, would cut down on
the common code duplicated between the two.