On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:13:12AM +0200, Garcia Jérémie wrote: > I hope this question is not too stupid but I can't find any piece of > info on the web. Note that your question is not kernel related and therefor off topic for this list. > I want to develop a C code in which one I need to do a "ping" test > ant then do FTP transfer. > Some OS as VxWorks offers a library to do that (pingLib & ftpLib). > Does Linux is able to give the same features? If you search freshmeat.net I'm sure you should be able to find something. Ping is so straightforward that it doesn't need a library. > If not how can I achieve that goal? > > ps: there is the "system()" command but it is too restrictive. If system() is too restrictive, you can always try popen() or fork() and exec() to do things yourself. >So any other idea? Use Perl instead of C. According to "man perlfaq9", the Perl LWP::Simple and Net::FTP packages can do FTP transfers, and Net::Ping can do ping. See manual pages Net::Ping, Net::FTP, LWP::Simple. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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