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  liboping – Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel
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-http://verplant.org/liboping/
+http://noping.cc/
 
 About
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@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Permissions
   (which is strongly suggested), you won't be able to use the binaries as a
   normal user, because you won't have the permission to open raw sockets.
 
+  The “install” target will automatically try fix this, if it is run with UID~0
+  (as user root).  When on Linux, the capabilities described below will be
+  added. On other UNIXes the traditional Set-UID method (also described below)
+  is used instead. The build system will not abort if this fails, because there
+  are file systems which do not support either method. Also, the Debian
+  packaging system and possibly other scenarios only act as if they were
+  running as root.
+
   Linux
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   On Linux, the preferred method is to assign the required “capability” to the
@@ -63,7 +71,7 @@ Permissions
   traditional set-UID root solution. If your system supports “saved set-UIDs”
   (basically all systems do), the applications will drop the privileges during
   initialization and only regain them when actually opening the socket(s).
-  
+
   To set the set-UID bit, run (as user root):
 
     # chown root: /opt/oping/bin/{,n}oping