operation not permitted when attempting to ping

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/03/2009 07:35 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
> Whenever I use ping it returns the message socket: Operation not
> permitted.  This only happens if I am not running the shell as an
> administrator otherwise it works fine..  The windows stock ping
> command doesn't need admin rights to run.  I am running Windows 7 and
> cygwin 1.7.  Attached is my cygcheck output.

Yep. Known issue.  Actually, the only reason Cygwin still has its own ping is
some people prefer it over the Windows version (and the complaints against
it have been low volume).  Anyway, this is the long way of saying "That's the
way it works and it's unlikely to change".

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