[Bug 2040] ICMP

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2040

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2004-20-02 10:34 -------
If you do "ls -l `which ping`" on your Linux box, you will get :

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        15312 Nov  3  1999 /bin/ping

And you will see the SUID bit set.

In other words, in the Unix world, only root can send ICMP packets. So to be
able to ping without using the 'ping' program, you need to be root.