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Re: [1.7] ping: socket: Operation not permitted


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

Sorry about that. I use gmail, and try to remember to erase the
addresses manually, but every once in a while it escapes me. If anyone
knows of a labs feature that can do that, just let me know!

> On 09/25/2009 10:58 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, my bad. Here is the cygcheck.
>>
>> I use Vista Ultimate, 32 bits.
>
> The previous thread that you refer to applies here unless you're running
> your shell with elevated permissions (and your user is part of the
> administrator group). ?As noted, this only applies to Cygwin's ping. ?The
> Windows ping (the one which you showed working) does not have this
> restriction.
>
I see... here's what I don't understand: I have been using cygwin for
years without this problem. ping has always "just worked" for me, so I
wonder if something has changed recently in the way this is done. Is
it possible that before I was somehow  invoking DOS's ping from within
cygwin? If so, would just uninstalling cygwin's ping solve the
problem?

Thanks a lot,
Gustavo.

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