1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 17 11:16:00 GMT 2009


On Apr 17 05:54, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I wonder if it's worth trying to rework some of the ping internals to
> use the ICMP dll.  If you do that, you can ping without Admin privs
> (this is the way FPing does it).

Yes, sure, but in that case, why not use the native ping?  AFAIK the
ICMP API doesn't provide all the data you need to emulate the usual
UNIX ping output anyway.


Corinna

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