The following reply was made to PR bin/28741; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/28741 CVS commit: src/sbin/ping
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:05:09 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	elad
 Date:		Sun Sep 24 11:05:09 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/sbin/ping: ping.c
 
 Log Message:
 PR/28741: Michael Santos: ping does [not] drop root privileges
 
 Moved socket calls way up, and called seteuid(getuid()).
 
 
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 cvs rdiff -r1.82 -r1.83 src/sbin/ping/ping.c
 
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