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Re: Listening sockets not always closing?


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Chris Taylor wrote:

> No offense, but doesn't this tell you what the solution is? Patch the
> out-dated machines.
> They're open to countless security flaws by now.
> All 2k boxen should be running SP4 by now - it's only been out a couple
> of years...

My cygwin application is a testing framework for a network security
application that must run on every service pack release of Windows 2000
and XP.

> Beyond that, I can't say anything, but really, look into updating the
> boxen to sp4.

>From the cygwin web page:
"The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32
bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows
CE."

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