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Re: Cygwin and internet???
- To: Alan Gonzalez <alan_gonzalez at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and internet???
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:15:37 -0800
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19981124164723.21409.qmail@findmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 04:47:23PM -0000, Alan Gonzalez wrote:
>
> I wasn't able to find out any information about this in the faqs or
> in the documentation. How come gcc and make and various other cygwin
> utilities send data across my internet connection. I find this odd.
> I'm using b19
What's probably happening is that a Cygwin program is probably using
sockets which end up initializing Microsoft's Winsock DLL which in
turn is probably generating some Internet traffic. Just a guess. Or
it could be that this is the effect of bash's MAILCHECK feature.
Dunno.
I promise you, we're not sucking down info from your hard drives or
any information at all about your systems. :-)
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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