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Craig Davison wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running cygwin 1.5.18 on a number of versions of Windows, and I may
> have found a problem closing sockets. I'm seeing this problem on Windows
> 2000 (no SP) and Windows 2000 SP1, but not on Windows 2000 SP2, SP3 or
> SP4, and Windows XP and XP SP2 are also unaffected.

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...

Beyond that, I can't say anything, but really, look into updating the 
boxen to sp4.


Chris
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