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Use a STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW technique to allow running the nmap process without

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using the Windows shell. The only reason for using the shell was to inhibit the
ceration of a terminal window, and this does the same thing. This solves
problems related to running through a shell: cancelling a scan wouldn't kill
the nmap process, and running from directories with names containing shell
metacharacters wouldn't work.
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# Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
o [Zenmap] On Windows, Zenmap no longer uses the cmd.exe shell to run
Nmap subprocesses. This means that canceling a scan will kill the
Nmap process as it does on other platforms (previously it would just
kill the shell). It also means that that scanning will work as a
user whose name contains characters like & that are significant to
the shell. Mike Crawford and Nick Marsh reported bugs related to
this. [David]
o Nmap's --traceroute has been rewritten for better performance.
Probes are sent in parallel to individual hosts, not just across all
hosts as before. Trace consolidation is more sophisticated, allowing