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FS#48207 - Error in ping man page

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Adrián López (adrianlzt) - Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 15:25 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 17:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

man page of ping is not formated properly


Additional info:
* package version: iputils 20150815.1c59920-3


Steps to reproduce:
man ping

...
-B Do not allow ping to change source address of probes. The address is bound to one selected when ping starts.

Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST
packets. With deadline [ping(8)] option, ping waits for count ECHO_REPLY packets, until the timeout expires.

-d Set the SO_DEBUG option on the socket being used. Essentially, this socket option is not used by Linux kernel.
...


Should be:
...
-B Do not allow ping to change source address of probes. The address is bound to one selected when ping starts.
-c count
Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST packets. With deadline [ping(8)] option, ping waits for count ECHO_REPLY packets,
until the timeout expires.

-d Set the SO_DEBUG option on the socket being used. Essentially, this socket option is not used by Linux kernel.
...
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 17:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#47133   FS#38642 

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