From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2006-12-02T05:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:54:49AM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> Jos Backus wrote:
> Seems to work.  Mind if I include with the next release of net-ping 
> (with acknowledgements, of course).

Of course, thanks Daniel.

> The only tweak I would make are to have it return true or false, instead 
> of 1 or nil.

Good idea. Now, the Perl Net::Ping library returns duration:

    ($ret, $duration, $ip) = $p->ping($host, $timeout);

    In array context, the elapsed time as well as the string form of the ip
    the host resolved to are also returned.

What would be the best way to add that to the Ruby version? Obviously one
would want all Net::Ping classes to support this. I have a local utility that
uses this information, which is why I need it.

Cheers,
-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com