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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] xscreensaver package caps gets raw socket
From:       "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler () dwheeler ! com>
Date:       2021-04-19 17:56:00
Message-ID: 93DB9621-4F4E-492B-94E9-EB86E5D09CE0 () dwheeler ! com
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>> On Apr 18, 2021, at 8:25 AM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>> Scraping is undesirable, but sometimes needed. If this is a common need, a
>> long-term solution might be to create an option on ping to generate a standard
>> format that's easier to machine-parse.
> 
> On Apr 19, 2021, at 1:35 PM, Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> wrote:
> This already exists as fping(1), for example:

The problem for application developers is that "ping" exists practically everywhere,
while fping does not.

--- David A. Wheeler



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