Re: Net::Ping::External

For the Win32 ping, you can add '> nul' (the equivalent of '> /dev/null') to give it the same behavior as the other OS's.

Also, you have it returning 0 if it finds "100% loss", but it will falsely report success if you feed it a host that doesn't exist, since the result of `ping` will be Unknown host foo.bar. (which doesn't contain "100% loss" in it).

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(tye)Re: Net::Ping::External by tye (Sage) on Mar 12, 2001 at 03:34 UTC
BTW, File::Spec knows what "/dev/null" / "nul" is for more operating systems. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]
Re: Re: Net::Ping::External by Falkkin (Chaplain) on Mar 13, 2001 at 02:34 UTC
Actually, I need to have Win32 ping behave differently than the other OS's. This is because, unlike everything Unix-like, Win32 returns 0 on successful ping, 0 on failed ping. Hence, I can't analyze the return value from `system()`, and actually need to parse the output, using backticks.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Net::Ping::External by Falkkin (Chaplain) on Mar 11, 2001 at 22:18 UTC
Thank you for the feedback; I've now fixed this in the code above.	[reply]