> Ah, I didn't realize that pinger() was still called via a signal > handler in ping. It looks like ping6 is better in this regard.
ping and ping6 need to be merged, as happened to traceroute. First step: make all ping6's options match ping options. Rename ping6 options with wild abandon if ping has a similar option. Don't encode backwards compat behaviour for those options in ping6; throw them out the window. However, each time ping6's guts are found to better, use the ping6 guts. The engine is a bit better. This should have happened years ago already. Every year of realtime, this gets harder to pull off; there will be more resistance against change.
