Question About ecb-host-accessible-p

I just spent a couple of days debugging an issue and I¹m curious what the
thinking was about including the ecb-host-accessible-p function.  I ended up
having two issues that were causing ECB to not work via Tramp on my remote
Linux system; both inadvertently because the ecb-host-accessible-p function
makes some calls that uses the system¹s Œping¹ program to see if it can
access the remote system: the first because the remote system was configured
to drop ICMP echo packets on the ground and the second because the ping
command on my Mac just runs forever when only the host name is given without
any ­c (count) option (fixed locally by setting the ecb-ping-options
correctly).

I¹m just trying to figure out why this function is here.  It would seem that
since it¹s not testing the real transport protocol that it¹s not really a
valid test.  Was this function included because Tramp, ANGE-FTP & EFS don¹t
do their own checks?  It seems like that would be the place this should be
done since ECB wouldn¹t know how these modules are talking.

Anyway, this isn¹t a criticism.  I¹m just wondering what issue prompted
going this direction.

Thanks,

Ryan

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