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Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:44:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets
- References: <49E7764B.7080700@veritech.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 16 14:17, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> I do a 'ping' in my profile of an Internet server to see if the
> network is up when I bring up the first terminal session/login.
>
> I'm getting the following error:
>
> ping: socket: Operation not permitted
Cygwin's ping uses raw sockets. Using raw sockets is only allowed
to administrative users since Windows XP or so. So Cygwin's ping
is not very useful for a long time. When you're running under UAC,
you don't have admin privs, unless you start the shell with "run as
administrator".
I still think we should remove ping from the distro. In its current
form it's not very helpful.
Corinna
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