X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790710230936t7a0d169fs8647ebb0ae18552d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:36:27 -0500 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with Cygwin Include Files In-Reply-To: <20071023084911.GM20400@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <471D1D5B.2070009@comcast.net> <20071023084911.GM20400@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 10/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 17:59, Larry Adams wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The problem is that /usr/include/cygwin/icmp.h is blank and needs to be > > "non-blank". > > - - - - words . . . - - - - > > It doesn't contain anything for a couple of reasons. > > - For ICMP you need raw sockets, but raw sockets were never really > supported in Cygwin. > - Windows disallows non-admin users to use them which makes them > somewhat less useful. > - There are not a lot of complaints about this fact so I assume > not many people really need it. > > And last but not least > > - Nobody contributed any code so far. > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC > http://cygwin.com/contrib.html > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat The perl Net::Ping module had a similar problem (see http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=42739 for details). These suggestions were implemented by the creation of the Win32::PingICMP module which taps icmp.dll to circumvent the "you must be admin" limitation. I have neither the ability nor the desire to look in to recreating in cygwin what icmp.dll and Win32::PingICMP do for Windows and perl. I'm just letting other folks know that it is probably possible and perhaps not that painful. -Jason -- 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/