[1.7] ping: socket: Operation not permitted

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep 25 13:17, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 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). Â As noted, this only applies to Cygwin's ping. Â 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?

Yes.  Only the Windows ping works without Admin privs right now.


Corinna

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