[Bug 8332] Ocean will not connect to internet

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8332

Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx(a)gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx(a)gmail.com> 2012-05-05 16:50:33 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> Is it better to make the err message like below ?
> """
> err:winediag:IcmpCreateFile Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires
> special permissions.
> To allow Wine opening raw sockets run this command:
> sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi /usr/bin/wine-preloader
> """

I'm not sure if that command is available in all systems wine is supported. IMO
it's better to leave it as is currently =)

(In reply to comment #11)
> Last I looked the ping command didn't provide all of the information needed
> to implement IcmpSendEcho(), but it's still usefull as a fallback I guess.
>
> It may be worth spending effort to handle privilege issues like this 
> (binding ports below 1024 and the page zero problem come to mind as well)
> with fine-grained permissions, as provided by selinux for example.

Hans, any update on this? Should we leave this bug opened till this is
implemented or maybe mark it as wontfix?

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