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Re: Thoughts on script documentation
From: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () opendz org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:48:36 +0100
On 2011-03-01 08:46:47 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
On Montag, 21. Februar 2011, Ron wrote:I think you'll find a lot of people who are okay with updating scripts/plugins/whatever on a regular basis, but are hesitant to update the full software. I realize that's sort of odd, but it's something to keep in mind. .I fully agree here, thats something we observe as well and regard as a problem. However: Some time ago I've seen people trying to provide a OpenVAS plugin feed with binaries. That miserably failed due to different hardware architectures and subtle differences. Strange crashes were the result. I am not saying it is impossible, but it will be a challenge.
I also agree, I can say that hardware architecture will definitely be a problem. I've started to write a proposal and some patches to introduce the NSE version numbering support to solve the incompatibility problem, thinking that only NSE scripts and libraries need to be updated, but now I'm not sure anymore. -- tixxdz http://opendz.org _______________________________________________ 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: Thoughts on script documentation Jan-Oliver Wagner (Jan 04)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Fyodor (Jan 04)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Jan-Oliver Wagner (Jan 05)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Fyodor (Jan 24)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation alexandru (Jan 24)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Ron (Feb 21)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Jan-Oliver Wagner (Feb 28)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Djalal Harouni (Mar 11)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Jan-Oliver Wagner (Jan 05)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Fyodor (Jan 04)
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- Re: Thoughts on script documentation David Fifield (Jan 12)