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Subject: Re: Bug in ping?  ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed
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On 2008-06-13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 13 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > ping does not have a maintainer currently so, unless someone wants to take
> > over maintainership, it is not likely to be changed and bug reports against
> > ping are not likely to be acted upon.
> 
> I'm wondering if we need it at all.  It doesn't exactly have more
> functionality than Window's on-board ping, plus, it uses RAW sockets.
> Raw socket I/O is restricted to administrative users since Windows XP.
> So Cygwin's ping can't work for non-admin users on XP and later.
> I'd rather drop it entirely from the distro.

I can get admin privileges to do my work.  It is more difficult to 
find proper tools.  Cygwin has made is really easy for me to do 
things that would be difficult or impossible in Windows.  I would be 
strongly in favor of keeping ping and other Cygwin tools with 
similar permission problems as part of the distribution.

Regards,
Gary


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