On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt
<address@hidden> wrote:
> What do people think about making the NUMBER argument to --count
> optional? The default value could be 3.
This will create a minor incompatibility with another ping
implementations. I mean, some people may be using this in their
script:
ping -c 4
which will break when -c is changed to accept optional argument.
Eh, why would this break anything? In the above example, you
explictly give an argument to --count
It's still ambiguous. Please don't make this change.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey