[Rcpp-devel] How to elevate privilege from within Rcpp?

[Bhaskar V. Karambelkar]

Nope I'm afraid no generalization trick. Basically I needed to open a RAW
socket which requires root access, but reading up on socket man page, I see
that now I can open a ICMP socket which is a new addition, and doesn't
require root and yet do what I want to do.

So just something that works for my particular case.

thanks
Bhaskar

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 15 March 2015 at 16:26, Bhaskar V. Karambelkar wrote:
> | I was afraid of that, but glad that you confirmed it. In the mean time
> I've
> | figured out a way that may not require root :)
>
> Hah!  If there is a generalizable trick worth sharing then please don't
> hold
> back and tell us.
>
> Dirk
>
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> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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