Re: Error in send, while using IP_HDRINCL

Arkady Frenkel wrote:
> "Eugene Gershnik" <gershnik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23SDWavboFHA.3300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Arkady Frenkel wrote:
>>> They do use drivers , but to install driver you have to be
>>> administrator and answer for Find new device Device Manager dialog
>>> in the case your driver not signed ( hard to believe that hacker
>>> will do all the procedure of WHQL :) )
>>
>> And MS could do exactly the same precautions for an app that uses raw
>> sockets. That is require a privilege normally held by admins only
>> (or even
>
> The only computers which are not admins at home are computers of the
> family members of IT administrators , they say :"In my family only I
> can be administrator!" :)

Same holds for the current situation. Most home users I know work as admins
and happily click Ok on any warning they got.

>> local system only) and popping up a dialog when a raw socket is
>> requested by an application for the first time.
>>
>> Instead they have chosen the easy way (for them) that hurts other
>> developers.
>>
> Before the year and half , when MS guys shows the upcoming changes of
> SP2 in Redmond I warned them with sentence :"By that you'll cause
> network students move to linux" , at the end they leave the UDP
> option at least.

OT: AFAIK all students and researchers are already on Linux. Have you seen
any interesting Windows network utility or tool in the last few years that
wasn't ported from Linux?

> Agree with you that it's not the best way and that
> hurt the white hackers( developers ) , so if the as many as possible
> of us will write to sdkfdbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx about that , IMHO, the
> changes will be done for that.


Hmmm. Might be worth a try.

--
Eugene
http://www.gershnik.com


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