This prevents nsock from iterating over the whole list of events at
each runloop, thus improving performance.
It made it necessary to have pointers from the msevents to the event
lists they belong to. The patch therefore also changes gh_list from
autonomous containers to embedded structures.
Added unit tests accordingly and cosmetic changes to make things look
more consistent.
Reworked the logging infrastructure to make it more flexible
and consistent.
Updated nmap, nping and ncat accordingly. Nsock log level can
now be adjusted at runtime by pressing d/D in nmap.
support for system-specific scalable IO notification facilities without breaking
portability. This initial version comes with an epoll(7)-based engine for Linux
and a select(2)-based fallback engine for all other operating systems.
This required an important refactoring of the library but the external API was
preserved.
The rewrite also tries to bring the coding standards of nmap to nsock.
See http://labs.unix-junkies.org/nsock_engines.html for the details.
If you have trouble updating after this revision you need to follow
these instructions. You have probably just seen an error like this:
svn: URL 'svn://svn.insecure.org/nping' of existing directory 'nping'
does not match expected URL 'svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap/nping'
This is caused by the replacement of SVN externals.
Here's what you need to do. First, save any local changes you might have
in the nping, nsock, nbase, ncat, and zenmap directories. (For example
by running "cd nping; svn diff > ../nping.diff".) If you don't have any
local changes you can skip this step.
Then run these commands:
rm -rf nping/ nsock/ nbase/ ncat/ zenmap/
svn update
svn cleanup
If all else fails, you can just delete your whole working directory and
check out anew:
svn co --username guest --password "" svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap
There may be further discussion in the mailing list thread at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/303.
