I just got consistent internet for my laptop and got the ftp and sed call pipes and stuff to work. What I want to know is if I make multiple fork() to execl() ping calls, should I limit the number of a standard argument-free call to my pkg_ping to 8 or so threads which pings each of the mirrors 9 or so times(and calculate the median latency) at 1 ping per second, or will the mirrors have ping firewall rules that relegate such a machine to a spam anchor in the of rules? I was thinking about having ftp download a small package to determine download speeds, but I wonder whether if I did that on a specific file, whether the results may be skewed by inconsistent squid or similar program caching often downloaded files on mirrors. On Dec 27, 2015 18:17, "Luke Small" <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even though I don't have an internet connection for my laptop I > started the C program that pipes an execl call from ftp, to sed, (like > the suggestions > offered earlier in the thread, and back to the parent and it will use > kqueue to test the pipe buffer capacities to a local buffer (I love > kqueue).... It could probably use the existing ftp() and maybe ping() > to deal with all the network protocols, interfaces and ports. I don't > want to sound like I'm bragging. I just really appreciate the help. > > -Luke
