Nmap Development: Re: Stupid patch... autostat every x seconds

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:52:07AM -0200, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
> David Fifield wrote:
> > What do you all think? What's your opinion of the option name?
> --stats-rate sounds more technical, IMHO.
Thanks for your input. Labeling it "rate" is misleading because the
argument doesn't represent a rate. "--stats-every 5" gives you updates
every 5 ms, not 5 updates a second. Even if the argument were changed to
be a rate, it would be awkward to say you want updates every 5 seconds;
it would be "--stats-rate 0.2".

David Fifield

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