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Tobias Waldekranz
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It turns out that the semantics of ping's -c option does not match our
expectations. The manual says:
> Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST packets. With deadline option,
> ping waits for count ECHO_REPLY packets, until the timeout expires.
But in fact, something like an ICMP_DEST_UNREACH will also count as a
response, meaning that the process will terminate with non-zero
exitcode even though the deadline has not yet been crossed, rather
than keep waiting for an ECHO_REPLY.
To add some extra flavor: this is only the case for iputils' ping,
Busybox's implementation will hold out for a response until the
deadline expires.
Therefore, wrap the ping in an ugly retry loop.
Also, return the full available context from must{,_not}_reach on
failures, instead of just the output. This allows us to show the exit
code in the top-level exception handler.