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helu, without any disrespect: I am not skilled in win32 api's and unfortunately I am not qualified enough to understand the mechanisms - which was why I posted the original question, with the hope that someone who recognized the call to the registry (where the application hangs) might explain what was going on. sockscap (like runsocks) takes a binary program, and at runtime uses different socks-aware dlls after intercepting network calls. that is the extent of my understanding. I also did not understand the legal issues that came up. sockscap is distributed under a license, and I'm was not aware if it was illegal to run cygwin under sockscap. I do know that f-secure and certain other products that use some security features (like license NTLM stuff) of windows do not run under sockscap: I was especially pleased that earlier cygwin did not complain. From a naive "end user" point of view, I lose cool functionality that I had. BTW I am a big fan of cygwin. I was able to compile tetris for terminals (written for serial terminals with curses in 1989) using the current release, which reinforces my faith in C portability, and I appreciate the work in cygnus in helping providing the environment. Thanks, Regards madhu -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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