Re: iphlpapi: Hint what to do when icmp does not work

[Janne Hakonen]

Maybe this information could be added to http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ instead?

Janne

-----Original Message----- 
From: Charles Davis
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:17 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: iphlpapi: Hint what to do when icmp does not work

On 2/11/11 11:12 AM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Otherwise the user might try running wine as root or doesn't know that 
> this error can be easily fixed when needed.
>
> dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c b/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
> index d8ee101..41d1940 100644
> --- a/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
> +++ b/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ HANDLE WINAPI IcmpCreateFile(VOID)
>      int sid=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,IPPROTO_ICMP);
>      if (sid < 0) {
>          ERR_(winediag)("Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires 
> special permissions.\n");
> -
>    ERR_(winediag)("Try running \"sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi 
>
> /usr/bin/wine-preloader".\n");

That only works on systems that support POSIX capabilities (Linux, and
maybe OpenBSD).

Chip