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RE: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
- From: Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com '" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:58:21 -0000
- Subject: RE: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from
> a running program.
>
> Any comments and ideas?
What happens when X crashes? We *have* to restore the firewall in this
case. I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile
using gcc then...
Maybe we need a wrapper script when runs "disable firewall", "run X",
"enable firewall". Works well (until the use kills the wrapper script...)
Stuart