Nmap Development: Re: [NSE] Shared Script Environments for Threads & Universal Awareness

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> > > Since we're using this nomenclature for script-specific information,
> > > how about
> > > making a global _R the registry interface?  It gets pretty ugly sometimes
> > > trying to deal with some arguments, e.g.:
> > >
> > > nmap.registry.args.anonFTP.pass
> > I'm for _R too!
> > whois.nse has:
> >
> >    nmap.registry.whois.cache[host.ip].data
> >
> > which has to be writeable from all threads so cannot be copied into a
> > local variable with a shorter name.
> >
> >    _R.cache[host.ip].data
> >
> > would be much nicer...
> This can and should be solved by local variables.
>
> local registry = nmap.registry;
> local args = registry.args;
That's like what I did for zoneTrans, and my point is that it's pretty lame
that a bunch of scripts will have to do the exact same steps when the solution
can be built-in somehow.  Like I said, I'm not pulling for any individual
change (as much as I like the simple _R), but surely something can be done
without requiring the scripts to handle the workaround for excess typing and
what is IMO ugliness.

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn


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