an invalid Lua state if the thread was collected due to timeout or other even
more rare reasons. Essentially, the callbacks from the nsock library
were using a collected Lua state. I have solved this by maintaining a
reference to the Lua State Thread in the nsock userdata's environment table.
This is a temporary patch for the stable release pending a more detailed
review of the NSE nsock library binding.
with it). The whitespace was various styles in often confusing places.
The whitespace also had many evil tabs. I used the indent program and
tried to follow the whitespace of the rest of NSE C code as closely as
possible.
allowing other pending socket connections to succeed sooner. This change
only slightly speeds up the process as these sockets will be collected
eventually, causing the slots to be unlocked.
expression did not match files when it did. This happens when an expression
matches a set of scripts that were loaded by other expressions first. A simple
example is the same expression with different capitalization (considered
to be two different expressions):
batrick@waterdeep:~/nmap/svn/nmap$ ./nmap -d2 -v --script default,DEFAULT localhost > /dev/null
NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
./nse_main.lua:365: 'DEFAULT' did not match a category, filename, or directory
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
./nse_main.lua:365: in function 'get_chosen_scripts'
./nse_main.lua:498: in main chunk
[C]: ?
QUITTING!
address on Solaris. The Solaris error message was
/dev/lo: No such file or directory
but apparently it can also be
lo0: No DLPI device found
Also changed the message to say that it can happen when scanning any
interface address, not just localhost. The new error message was lately
reported by Dom De Vitto.
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q2/0127.htmlhttp://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q1/0853.html
better interface with tabs instead of a linear sequence of pages. The
ability to run a scan from the editor was the one thing the command
wizard could do that the profile editor couldn't, but now it can do that
too.
