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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/