bin/110933: [traceroute] minimal wait time should be 1 sec, not 2

[Maxim Konovalov]

Hi,

Are there any ideas why traceroute requires waittime >=2 seconds?  The
only place it used is select(2) timeout.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:44:54 +0400 (MSD)
From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: bin/110933: [traceroute][patch] minimal wait time should be 1 sec,
    not 2
Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:50:09 GMT
Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org (GNATS Filer)
Resent-To: freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org

[...]
In traceroute utility, minimal time to wait for reply is 2 seconds.
That's annoying, because system administrators often need traceroute
to skip hosts that do not respond faster, but when specifying obvious
wait time as 1 sec, they get an error. I see no reason for minimal
wait time to be 2 sec, the patch attached lowers limit to well
expected 1 second.
>How-To-Repeat:
1) traceroute -w1 somehost
traceroute: wait time must be > 1
2) ?!
>Fix:

--- traceroute.patch begins here ---
--- src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.c.orig	Tue Mar 27 19:34:53 2007
+++ src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.c	Tue Mar 27 19:35:00 2007
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@

 		case 'w':
 			waittime = str2val(optarg, "wait time",
-			    2, 24 * 60 * 60);
+			    1, 24 * 60 * 60);
 			break;

 		case 'z':
--- traceroute.patch ends here ---


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