Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.9.4-1

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 17 19:41, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:14:46 +0900
> Takashi Yano wrote:
> > ping/ping6 in inetutils also require administrator right as well.
> 
> I have noticed that current ping package, as well as ping/ping6 in
> inetutils, works without administrator privilege in Windows 10.
> 
> It seems that the policy of raw socket access has been changed in
> Windows 10.

Indeed!  Wow.  I just checked and apparently this has been implemented
mainly for WSL, already since build 14926.

The remaining problem is that we still have non-W10 users.

So I think the right thing to do is to keep ping in a separate package.

Marco, the ping you're maintaining isn't IPv6 capable, as far as I can
see.

Marco and Takashi, what about using ping/ping6 from inetutils but
providing them in a ping package on their own?  Would you mind to
discuss this between the two of you?  Whatever you two come up with is
fine with me.


Thanks,
Corinna

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