1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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