X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43A8A6C3.5040401@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:50:11 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Davison CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Listening sockets not always closing? References: <43A87D7B.7060709@equate.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Craig Davison wrote: > 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. OK. >>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." I don't read it the same way you do. To me, that says that it will run on the latest service pack level of 95, 98, Me, NT 3.51, NT 4, W2K, XP, and W2K3. Of course, I expect no one is especially averse to Cygwin working well on any interim service pack either. But considering that keeping and testing against all these variations of platforms is a big task, I think this could boil down to a PTC situation. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/