Re: RAW sockets

[A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>]

> There's M-x ping from lisp/net/net-utils.el, I think it works on
> most systems.  This file also provides M-x traceroute, M-x finger,
> M-x whois, etc.

> >> It would be nice if someone wrote a generic ping.el wrapper around
> >> different ping programs on various platforms, passing the proper
> >> set of parameters to make them do the right things...
> >
> > There's M-x ping from lisp/net/net-utils.el, I think it works on
> > most systems.  This file also provides M-x traceroute, M-x finger,
> > M-x whois, etc.
> 
> Thanks.  I had forgotten all about those utils.
> 
> In any case, my proposal was to create a more lisp-like api for this
> which would allow _code_ to determine whether a given host responds to
> ping.  Such an api should definitely use net-utils as a base.

It is nice to exist a net.el with ping written just in emacs lisp, not to render the output from an external ping, even it is more difficult. That is what I thought when I posted.


By the way. Why emacs-paste site render the lisp code in very nice readable colors, while EmacsWiki, which is the main site to leans ELISP, does not? There is not a common administrator?

Alin Soare.