[Mono-list] Socket problem

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:35 -0700, Trimble, Nathan G wrote:
> "I may be wrong, but I thought you needed root rights for ICMP. Have you
> tried running your mono app as root?" 
> This is just for curiosity's sake.  If only root has rights to ICMP, how
> does ping run under a normal user account?

It doesn't.

awilliam at aleph:~> ls -l /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 35520 2006-04-22 21:53 /bin/ping
---^

> Could the same method be used under Mono?