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Re: [NSE] Parallel Worker Thread Patch
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:53:18 -0800
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:18:17PM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
script with its own custom action function (main function). The worker threads, however, cannot generate script output. As an example use case, an HTTP spider script can use worker threads to perform many requests in parallel instead of serially.
Nice. This feature should allow the brute force authentication cracking scripts to go much faster too after they are rewritten to take advantage of it. Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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