Re: traceroute: Modernize time functions.

Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:02:43 +0200

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Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes:

> Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I've applied this patch using modern gnulib timespec functions instead
>> of rolling our own versions (atleast for traceroute).
>
> Likewise for ping & ping6.

Thanks - I'm neutral on these patches, as I don't really know what a
positive or negative test for them would be.  However, speaking on
inet_ntoa and different code paths reminded me: a good todo work item
would be to merge the ping4 and ping6 tools.  I don't think there are
any reasonable arguments for having different main() etc code paths for
these two tools, they ought to be close enough to use the same overall
logic and differ when needed depending on IPv4 vs IPv6.  Does anyone see
any strong argument against that?  I think some small (hopefully
unintentional) variations between these tools have sneaked in because
they aren't synced, and I think it would be nice to make them more
consistent.  Not sure if you want to work on this, but thought I should
mention it.

/Simon

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