[PATCH] ping: try SOCK_DGRAM if no root privileges

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 10 16:15:26 UTC 2014


>n Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.

Ah, I see. Sorry.


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