shell vs. process

[Mark Wieder]

Sarah-

Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 6:05:47 PM, you wrote:

> Getting to this thread a bit late, but here is how I do a ping without
> blocking anything else. It is very quick if the ping is successful,
> but it's the failure delay that has to be allowed for.

Hey! That's cheating! Darn - here I thought you had an example of how
to ping using sockets...

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-Mark Wieder
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