[Mono-dev] Ping throwing exception

[Gladish, Jacob]

I'm getting an exception from an application that is repeatedly running pings. The Ping class looks like it'll switch between invoking /bin/ping and sending an ICMP directly depending on the user. I'm running as a non-privileged user, therefore, its exec'ing ping. Every once in a while I get an "unknown" response, and have tracked it back to Ping.cs -- the code snippet below. The only way I can see this failing is if WaitForSingleObjectEx is broken for processes. The timeout being used is 4000, which is the default.


Does anyone know if there are any outstanding issues with WaitForSingleObjectEx and processes.




System.InvalidOperationException: The process must exit before getting the requested information.
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_ExitCode () [0x00000]
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Diagnostics.Process:get_ExitCode ()
  at MassPinger.Ping.SendUnprivileged (System.Net.IPAddress address, Int32 timeout, System.Byte[] buffer, MassPinger.PingOptions options) [0x00000]


Ping.cs:273

if (!ping.WaitForExit (timeout) || ping.ExitCode == 2) {
               return new PingReply (address, buffer, options, trip_time, System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPStatus.TimedOut);
            }



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