EA Durbin wrote:
> I tried to update the Ocean application as outlined in bug 8332 and got a
> message from the console stating I needed to be running as root for ICMP to
> work. I thought wine was not to be run as root, is this not correct?
>
> int sid=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,IPPROTO_ICMP);
> if (sid < 0) {
> MESSAGE("WARNING: Trying to use ICMP (network ping) will fail unless
> running as root\n");
> SetLastError(ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED);
> return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
> }
It's not the ICMP you need to look at but "SOCK_RAW". This is not supported
for regular users, only superuser.
Vitaliy.
