X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke AT web DOT de>
Subject: Re: mtr compilation problem
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:58:56 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <loom.20110316T175432-314@post.gmane.org>
References: <ilokcn$ut5$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org> <20110316100937 DOT GB26391 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <ilqj7k$q6h$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Olivier Lefevre <lefevrol <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Re. raw sockets and the need for elevated privilege,
> can't you use the RunAs trick to get around it?

Also on Unix/Linux a raw socket cannot be used by a normal user.
But the ping program is setuid root and thus can be called by any user.
Unfortunatly there is no such mechanism in cygwin.

Regards

kf




--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple