On 7 April 2022 13:38:48 CEST, [email protected] wrote:
>Hello all together,
>
>I’m using the busybox arping version to scan a larger number of systems. Lots 
>of these systems don’t answer to the arping request.
>Due to the implementation of arping, the timeout has to be at least one second 
>which leads to the fact that the scan duration is artificially extremely 
>lengthened. After looking into the source code, I found out that this is 
>mainly because the function alarm() is used. 
>After a simple adjustment of the timeout parameters and changing alarm(1) to 
>ualarm(10000) I have achieved my desired behavior.
>
>Is there reason to use alarm() instead of ualarm() that I’m seeing here?

ualarm was removed in POSIX.1-2008

thanks,
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