X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:41:23 -0700 (MST) From: Craig Davison To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Listening sockets not always closing? In-Reply-To: <43A87D7B.7060709@equate.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <43A87D7B.7060709@equate.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Chris Taylor wrote: > No offense, but doesn't this tell you what the solution is? Patch the > out-dated machines. > They're open to countless security flaws by now. > All 2k boxen should be running SP4 by now - it's only been out a couple > of years... My cygwin application is a testing framework for a network security application that must run on every service pack release of Windows 2000 and XP. > Beyond that, I can't say anything, but really, look into updating the > boxen to sp4. From the cygwin web page: "The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE." -- 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/