Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-18 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 17 10:46, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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. AFAIK, the native (e.g. the s

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 17 10:46, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > 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. > > AFAIK, the native (e.g. the shipped-with-windows) pi

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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. AFAIK, the native (e.g. the shipped-with-windows) ping doesn't use the ICMP dll either. That's why I inst

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Korn
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > * I also continue to have problems installing 'gcc' and 'tetex', > both keep reinstalling. Could this be related to ACLs? No, this is a known issue (at least for GCC) and harmless. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Wilson
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

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-17 Thread 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

1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-16 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
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 It doesn't matter what pingable node I try. They all fail. 'type' reveals that this is '/bin