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Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs


Matthew O. Persico wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote:

Martin Cohen Wrote:

The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was
set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access the
internat. This caused the failure above.

I do not know why emacs (and other applications, such as
xclock) need to access the internet, but allowing them to
allows them to run.

Emacs (and must programs X programs) use TCP/IP sockets to communicate to Xserver.



Agreed, but what really bugs me is this:

Emacs has to use TCP/IP to look for an XServer, but the best it can to is look at 127.0.0.1 and then $DISPLAY. Sooooo, assuming that both are on the same machine, why is McAffee detecting an attempt to get to the Internet? Shouldn't they both resolve to the LAN? Unless McAffee/Norton and the ilk monitor the TCP/IP stack and put up "messages" before the destination is decoded, assuming the worst?


Is this a rhetorical question?

If not, you could debug Emacs to look for the answer, although I expect it
comes down to the internals of Winsock.  But, if you can't find a good
reason there, then it must be a McAffee issue.  Actually, you might want
to start there anyway.  A review of their knowledge base might provide
some insights.  If you do find that this is some wierd Cygwin issue,
report it back to this list.


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