On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, robin <robinpv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL)); regular users can't do this on most (all?) linux systems. this is a highly priviledged operation, and its not a suprise that a regular user can't do this. in that respect, this issue has nothing to do with GTK. it is somewhat connected to GTK in that GTK has (had?) issues with running in the context of setuid(0). the simplest solution is to make your app be setuid, open the socket before initializing GTK, then drop setuid to keep GTK happy. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
