units: update, FHS compliance

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Mer 20/1/10, Corinna Vinschen  ha scritto:

> > >   ping
> > 
> > I will look at this, but it seems a bit tricky...

in reality there was just a typo in the "ancient" predecessor
of cygport used to compile and package it.
It build fine, just need now the change of directory for the 
documentation. And eventually a cygport migration.

> 
> It just needs a Windows hack for non-Admin users, starting
> with Windows
> XP.  If a user get's a permission denied when trying
> to open a SOCK_RAW
> socket, it should fall back to a Windows-specific routine
> using the IP
> Helper functions
> IcmpCreateFile/IcmpSendEcho2/IcmpCloseHandle, or the
> IPv6 equivalents
> Icmp6CreateFile/Icmp6SendEcho2/Icmp6CloseHandle.

Basically rewrite ping , a small 700 line C program,
adding an interface to Icmp.dll.

This will need more time ;-)

> 
> > >   plotutils
> > 
> > From http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/
> > The current version is 2.4.1, released July 2000.
> > 
> > I should say not very active, is used somewhere ? 
> 
> I have no idea.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

Marco






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