Re: xscreensaver package caps gets raw socket

[Stuart Henderson <stu () spacehopper org>]

On 2021/04/19 14:31, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Also fping is the standard fping, but there is no standard ping so one
> would need to coordinate adding the option to a number of different
> descendant forks of 4.3BSD ping, before it could be reliably used.

Unfortunately fping isn't really standard either (e.g. flent uses it but
has a bunch of checks to make sure the installed version works as expected;
https://github.com/tohojo/flent/blob/master/flent/runners.py#L1210)
though it's less of a challenge than the many different pings.