From: Zebediah Figura <z.figura12@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ping: Implemented -n functionality.
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 09:27:24 -0600
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On 16/02/18 23:42, Alex Henrie wrote:
> Hello Isira, and thanks for your interest in contributing to Wine! If
> I remember correctly, ping.exe was supposed to call IcmpSendEcho, but
> no one has written the code yet. Can you rewrite your patch using
> IcmpSendEcho instead of calling the external Unix command?
> 
> -Alex
> 
> 

Yes, in general we want to call into Windows APIs where possible,
leaving the Windows -> host translation to the lowest level.