From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Cygwin and internet??? 1 Dec 1998 00:16:42 -0800 Message-ID: <19981130161537.26588.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <19981124164723.21409.qmail@findmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Alan Gonzalez Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 04:47:23PM -0000, Alan Gonzalez wrote: > > I wasn't able to find out any information about this in the faqs or > in the documentation. How come gcc and make and various other cygwin > utilities send data across my internet connection. I find this odd. > I'm using b19 What's probably happening is that a Cygwin program is probably using sockets which end up initializing Microsoft's Winsock DLL which in turn is probably generating some Internet traffic. Just a guess. Or it could be that this is the effect of bash's MAILCHECK feature. Dunno. I promise you, we're not sucking down info from your hard drives or any information at all about your systems. :-) -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".