Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:51:01PM -0800, James Liggett wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 23:50 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 22:35 -0800, James Liggett wrote: > > > Hi, > > > For a while now I've been noticing a very bad regression in winsock with > > > steam. If I try to view information about a server using the "View game > > > info command," my Internet connection fails completely. Not only that, > > > but sometimes *all* of the machines on my network (both WinXP and Linux) > > > lose their connections as well. I did the usual drudgery and found the > > > offending patch: > > > http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-cvs/2005-November/019293.html > > > > > > Can someone take a look at this one ASAP? Thanks very much! > > > > > > James > > > > Does that make this a security issue? > Maybe for people running Wines older than current CVS (this would > include 0.9.3, it has been fixed in current) Nonetheless, it's a pretty > bad problem, but the next release will include the fix. I don't think Scott meant it that way ;-) Who cares about Wine, here's a change that makes half the machines in the network lose connection randomly, that's much bigger things to worry about potentially than simply non-working Wine socket functionality...
Thus one should probably attempt to investigate a bit more. Andreas Mohr