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It is a sad day for computing when - hackers can't read an RFC - hackers don't know octal - hackers can't trial-and-error an interesting behaviour until they
by ojiikun 14y ago
It is a sad day for computing when
- hackers can't read an RFC
- hackers don't know octal
- hackers can't trial-and-error an interesting behaviour until they see a pattern and learn for themselves.
- humdumb 14y ago- hackers don't read source code All one has to do is look at the source for ping and questions like these are answered.
- cnvogel 14y agoI'll not look this up now, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is found in inlet_aton() in the c-library ping has been linked against, not ping.
- Retric 14y agoI think you meant inet_aton() or inet_addr(). However, the value of looking at ping is it let's you see a simple example of a lot of networking system calls which you can then dig into. I had a class project to write a simple web-server and text based browser in C and ping was actually a great place to start.
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- meaty 14y agoI think its sadder not that they don't know but don't bother our of sheer apathy and expect canned knowledge ready to be pumped into their minds on stack exchange or google. That applies to the majority of 'knowledge' these days.