Elan wrote:
> As far as I recall the problem with ping is that under Unix based systems
> ping has to temporarily assume super user privileges.
According to the ping.c source code, one of the bugs is that:
This program has to run SUID to ROOT to access the ICMP socket.
Presumably if REBOL were to implement ICMP, the same condition would
apply. There *could* be some security issues there.
Regards,
Kev
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