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src/liboping.c: Ensure ping_send() returns non-zero on success.
authorFlorian Forster <ff@octo.it>
Fri, 5 May 2017 09:11:55 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
committerFlorian Forster <ff@octo.it>
Fri, 5 May 2017 09:11:55 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
This is the documented behavior.

src/liboping.c

index 117cbfac893b16639be2beb926ac54159d66ebf8..f4cf614ca0704258a63bf79f32261d88e21e5f06 100644 (file)
@@ -1367,8 +1367,6 @@ int ping_send (pingobj_t *obj)
        struct timeval nowtime;
        struct timeval timeout;
 
-       int ret = 0;
-
        _Bool need_ipv4_socket = 0;
        _Bool need_ipv6_socket = 0;
 
@@ -1432,6 +1430,12 @@ int ping_send (pingobj_t *obj)
         * receive a "pong" yet. */
        int pings_in_flight = 0;
 
+       /* pongs_received is the number of echo replies received. Unless there
+        * is an error, this is used as the return value of ping_send(). */
+       int pongs_received = 0;
+
+       int error_count = 0;
+
        while (pings_in_flight > 0 || host_to_ping != NULL)
        {
                fd_set read_fds;
@@ -1512,13 +1516,19 @@ int ping_send (pingobj_t *obj)
                if (obj->fd6  != -1 && FD_ISSET (obj->fd6, &read_fds))
                {
                        if (ping_receive_one (obj, &nowtime, AF_INET6) == 0)
+                       {
                                pings_in_flight--;
+                               pongs_received++;
+                       }
                        continue;
                }
                if (obj->fd4 != -1 && FD_ISSET (obj->fd4, &read_fds))
                {
                        if (ping_receive_one (obj, &nowtime, AF_INET) == 0)
+                       {
                                pings_in_flight--;
+                               pongs_received++;
+                       }
                        continue;
                }
 
@@ -1533,13 +1543,15 @@ int ping_send (pingobj_t *obj)
                        if (ping_send_one (obj, host_to_ping, write_fd) == 0)
                                pings_in_flight++;
                        else
-                               ret--;
+                               error_count++;
                        host_to_ping = host_to_ping->next;
                        continue;
                }
        } /* while (1) */
 
-       return (ret);
+       if (error_count)
+               return (-1 * error_count);
+       return (pongs_received);
 } /* int ping_send */
 
 static pinghost_t *ping_host_search (pinghost_t *ph, const char *host)