[PATCH] ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges

Laurent Bercot ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org
Fri Jan 10 12:59:37 UTC 2014


> Did you see the patch John Spencer sent me to make it actually work?
> About three dozen more lines of code.

  John Spencer's patch focuses on making ping work without root privileges.
  My code focuses on giving root privileges to applets that need it (such
as current ping) without making the whole busybox binary setuid root.
Not the same approach, not the same thing.

-- 
  Laurent



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