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Nmap Development: Re: sig handler (was: nmap 3.70 - ultra_scan())

Re: sig handler (was: nmap 3.70 - ultra_scan())

From: Brett Campbell <brett_at_custom-tech.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:44:37 -0700

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:34:21PM +0200, Nils Magnus wrote:
<snip>
> Being a nmap user for several years I often have similar experiences as
> Matt had. I'd love to see some kind of signal handler, say for SIGUSR1
> that actaully terminates the current scan and moves on.
<snip>
> Maybe this feature makes it at least to the wishlist?

This sounds like a great feature. Forgive me, Fyodor, if such a thing
exists, as I am not familiar with the code base yet.

Catching signals to do various things like this could be handy.

Thanks,
 - -Brett

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