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Re: Crash on Windows 208 server
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:58:37 -0700
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:59:16PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
Fyodor wrote:On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:36:02PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:53:58PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: Does anyone else use --interactive? My guess is that it hasn't worked for running more than one scan for some time. For those who don't know, when you use --interactive, you get a little shell like this:You're probably right. Unless we hear from at least a couple Interactive Mode fans who want it kept, I think we can remove that whole functionality. Even the Nmap man page says "This option is rarely used".I wanted that option to create a daemon process to serve probe request, in a way similar to what ClamAV does. It would be nice not having to reload an executable for each scan.
--interactive is basically reloading the engine every time, including data files. All you would be saving is the overhead of the OS loading the binary. You should make some measurements to see if it's really saving you anything. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server David Fifield (Feb 26)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server Fyodor (Mar 01)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server Ron (Mar 02)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server Juan Carlos Castro y Castro (Mar 04)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server David Fifield (Mar 04)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server Fyodor (Mar 05)
- --interactive mode gone David Fifield (Mar 31)
- Re: --interactive mode gone Michael Pattrick (Mar 31)
- Re: Crash on Windows 208 server Fyodor (Mar 01)