dist/Net-Ping - Update (selectively) to 2.75

Porting/Maintainers.pl

@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ our %Modules = (
     },
 
     'Net::Ping' => {
-        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'RURBAN/Net-Ping-2.75.tar.gz',
+        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'RURBAN/Net-Ping-2.76.tar.gz',
         'FILES'        => q[dist/Net-Ping],
         'EXCLUDED'     => [
             qr{^\.[awc]},

dist/Net-Ping/Changes

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 CHANGES
 -------
+2.76  2025-09-08 08:39:55 rurban
+      Features
+      - use SOCK_DRGAM for ICMP under linux, which requires no root.
+        (Owen DeLong GH #33)
+      Minor
+      - Improve make release
 2.75  2022-09-01 12:44:03 rurban
       Minor
       - Modernized the synopsis (PR #31)

dist/Net-Ping/lib/Net/Ping.pm

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use Time::HiRes;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 @EXPORT = qw(pingecho);
 @EXPORT_OK = qw(wakeonlan);
-$VERSION = "2.76";
+$VERSION = "2.77";
 
 # Globals
 
@@ -227,13 +227,18 @@ sub new
   }
   elsif ($self->{proto} eq "icmp")
   {
-    croak("icmp ping requires root privilege") if !_isroot();
+    croak("icmp ping requires root privilege") if !_isroot() and $^O ne "linux";
     $self->{proto_num} = eval { (getprotobyname('icmp'))[2] } ||
       croak("Can't get icmp protocol by name");
     $self->{pid} = $$ & 0xffff;           # Save lower 16 bits of pid
     $self->{fh} = FileHandle->new();
-    socket($self->{fh}, PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
-      croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    if ($^O eq "linux" and !_isroot()) {
+      socket($self->{fh}, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    } else {
+      socket($self->{fh}, PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    }
     $self->_setopts();
     if ($self->{'ttl'}) {
       setsockopt($self->{fh}, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TTL, pack("I*", $self->{'ttl'}))
@@ -250,8 +255,13 @@ sub new
       croak("Can't get ipv6-icmp protocol by name"); # 58
     $self->{pid} = $$ & 0xffff;           # Save lower 16 bits of pid
     $self->{fh} = FileHandle->new();
-    socket($self->{fh}, $AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
-      croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    if ($^O eq 'linux' and !_isroot()) {
+      socket($self->{fh}, $AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    } else {
+      socket($self->{fh}, $AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+    }
     $self->_setopts();
     if ($self->{'gateway'}) {
       my $g = $self->{gateway};
@@ -715,8 +725,13 @@ sub ping_icmp
   $timeout = $self->{timeout} if !defined $timeout and $self->{timeout};
   $timestamp_msg = $self->{message_type} && $self->{message_type} eq 'timestamp' ? 1 : 0;
 
-  socket($self->{fh}, $ip->{family}, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
-    croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+  if ($^O eq 'linux' and !_isroot()) {
+      socket($self->{fh}, $ip->{family}, SOCK_DGRAM, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+  } else {
+      socket($self->{fh}, $ip->{family}, SOCK_RAW, $self->{proto_num}) ||
+          croak("icmp socket error - $!");
+  }
 
   if (defined $self->{local_addr} &&
       !CORE::bind($self->{fh}, _pack_sockaddr_in(0, $self->{local_addr}))) {
@@ -2366,11 +2381,13 @@ enabled.
 X<ping_icmp>
 
 The L</ping> method used with the icmp protocol.
+Under Linux under a non-root account this uses now SOCK_DGRAM.
 
 =item $p->ping_icmpv6([$host, $timeout, $family])
 X<ping_icmpv6>
 
 The L</ping> method used with the icmpv6 protocol.
+Under Linux under a non-root account this uses now SOCK_DGRAM.
 
 =item $p->ping_stream([$host, $timeout, $family])
 X<ping_stream>

dist/Net-Ping/t/000_load.t

@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ BEGIN {
     use_ok( 'Net::Ping' )   || print "No Net::Ping!\n";
 }
 
-note( "Testing Net::Ping $Net::Ping::VERSION, Perl $], $^X" );
+diag( "Testing Net::Ping $Net::Ping::VERSION, Perl $] on $^O, $^X" );
 

dist/Net-Ping/t/010_pingecho.t

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use warnings;
 use strict;
 use Config;
 
+
 BEGIN {
   unless (my $port = getservbyname('echo', 'tcp')) {
     print "1..0 \# Skip: no echo port\n";
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ BEGIN {use_ok('Net::Ping')};
 TODO: {
     local $TODO = "Not working on os390 smoker; may be a permissions problem"
       if $^O eq 'os390';
+    $TODO = "Not working on freebsd" if $^O eq 'freebsd';
     my $result = pingecho("127.0.0.1");
     is($result, 1, "pingecho 127.0.0.1 works");
 }

dist/Net-Ping/t/450_service.t

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ is($p->ping("127.0.0.1"), 1, 'first port is reachable');
 $p->{port_num} = $port2;
 
 {
-    local $TODO = "Believed not to work on $^O" if $^O =~ /^(?:MSWin32|os390|cygwin)$/;
+    local $TODO = "Believed not to work on $^O" if $^O =~ /^(?:hpux|MSWin32|os390|cygwin|freebsd)$/;
     is($p->ping("127.0.0.1"), 1, 'second port is reachable');
 }
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ SKIP: {
 
   {
     local $TODO = "Believed not to work on $^O"
-      if $^O =~ /^(?:MSWin32|os390|cygwin)$/;
+      if $^O =~ /^(?:hpux|MSWin32|os390|cygwin|freebsd)$/;
     is($p->ack(), '127.0.0.1', 'IP should be reachable');
   }
 }

dist/Net-Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t

@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 my $is_devel = $ENV{PERL_CORE} || -d ".git" ? 1 : 0;
+$ENV{TEST_PING_HOST} = "127.0.0.1" if $ENV{NO_NETWORK_TESTING};
 # Note this rawsocket test code is considered anti-social in p5p and was removed in
 # their variant.
-# See http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240707
+# See https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/11/msg240707.html
 # Problem is that ping_icmp needs root perms, and previous bugs were
 # never caught. So I rather execute it via sudo in the core test suite
 # and on devel CPAN dirs, than not at all and risk further bitrot of this API.
-if ( 0 && !Net::Ping::_isroot()) { # disable in blead via 7bfdd8260c
+if (!Net::Ping::_isroot()) {
     my $file = __FILE__;
     my $lib = $ENV{PERL_CORE} ? '-I../../lib' : '-Mblib';
     if ($is_devel and $Config{ccflags} =~ /fsanitize=address/ and $^O eq 'linux') {
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ if ( 0 && !Net::Ping::_isroot()) { # disable in blead via 7bfdd8260c
 
 SKIP: {
   skip "icmp ping requires root privileges.", 2
-    if !Net::Ping::_isroot() or $^O eq 'MSWin32';
+    if ($^O ne 'Linux' and !Net::Ping::_isroot()) or $^O eq 'MSWin32';
   my $p = new Net::Ping "icmp";
   is($p->message_type(), 'echo', "default icmp message type is 'echo'");
   # message_type fails on wrong message type

dist/Net-Ping/t/501_ping_icmpv6.t

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 my $is_devel = $ENV{PERL_CORE} || -d ".git" ? 1 : 0;
-if (0 && !Net::Ping::_isroot()) {
+$ENV{TEST_PING6_HOST} = "::1" if $ENV{NO_NETWORK_TESTING};
+if (!Net::Ping::_isroot()) {
     my $file = __FILE__;
     my $lib = $ENV{PERL_CORE} ? '-I../../lib' : '-Mblib';
     # -n prevents from asking for a password. rather fail then
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ SKIP: {
   my $rightip = "2001:4860:4860::8888"; # pingable ip of google's dnsserver
   # for a firewalled ipv6 network try an optional local ipv6 host
   $rightip = $ENV{TEST_PING6_HOST} if $ENV{TEST_PING6_HOST};
-  my $wrongip = "2001:4860:4860::1234"; # non existing ip
+  my $wrongip = "2001:db8::"; # non existing ip
   # diag "Pinging existing IPv6 ";
   my $result = $p->ping($rightip);
   if ($result == 1) {