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Ping is so mean 🥺 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 119 points 1 year ago

I got your IP adress, see you soon kiddo 😎

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 40 points 1 year ago

OP must be my neighbour

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm already in the network... Wait...

[-] Sylver@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

Wait a second… That’s MY ip!

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

Wait ... the ping is coming from inside the house!

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit 😱 (unplugs everything from mains... waits in terror in a corner...)

[-] NotMelon@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Hahahahah you just doxed yourself hahahahah

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 year ago

Wow, that is an unhelpful error message. It could have told you it was expecting a number. It turns out that -i is short for "interval" and expects a number, whereas -I is used to specify an interface.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

This exactly. And because this is open-source, its super easy to track this down. I searched for the source of the error message:

https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/3400f3a740942064a545f02aabcf68e234733297/ping/ping.c#L237

see this is ping_strtod function - so search for that function name and the first hit is the '-i' case:

		case 'i':
		{
			double optval;

			optval = ping_strtod(optarg, _("bad timing interval"));
			if (isless(optval, 0) || isgreater(optval, (double)INT_MAX / 1000))
				error(2, 0, _("bad timing interval: %s"), optarg);
			rts.interval = (int)(optval * 1000);
			rts.opt_interval = 1;
		}
			break;
[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

It’s actually a technical term in language theory – a term that cannot be produced by the language, but is still considered part of the ‘universe’ (i.e., the set of all terms) is called ‘garbage’ or ‘junk’.

Since I can’t find a source online to verify this claim, this might just have been the case in my courses…

[-] damium@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

"Invalid" or "unparseable" are more understandable descriptors in normal language. I don't think I ever heard of garbage/junk being used for that in language theory but it may be domain specific usage.

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

See, even ping hates "consistent device naming!"

[-] krnl386@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good old git blame lol! Not only can you determine when the change was made and where, it’s trivial to look up the author of the commit: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/562e0d570d93cfcfdebab1215a2f04efa64a24f8

To be fair, the author’s first language may not be English…

Is anyone interested in submitting a pull request? Looks like Github contributions are accepted.

[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

My dude. It's not a bug, OP just used small i instead of capital. Please don't bother developers over this.

[-] krnl386@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think descriptive and useful error messages are OK to report as enhancements. They don’t have to be functional bugs.

[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There might be a reason it was never fixed. Something stupid like a lot of 30 year old scripts relying on this out come. Hope not, you're right that error message is ass

[-] 0xb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

-Me talking to people on twitter after nov 22 and before leaving

[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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