Re: RFE: make more functions and variables static

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv () altlinux org>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:54:06PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:47:44AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > While updating my drop-priv patch for nmap-4.01, I noticed that nmap *.o
> > files define a lot of global symbols, obviously more than necessary.
> >
> > I wrote a simple script (for GNU/Linux) to find potential symbols which
> > could be made static:
>
> Whew, that is a lot of symbols!  But I went through them all and made
> the vast majority of them static (a few I was able to remove
> entirely).  The change will be in the next version of Nmap.  Thanks
> for the list and script.

Attached script is enhanced for better reuse version of original one.

There are probably more potentially static symbols in nmapfe and other
subdirectories:

$ nonstatic-symbols.sh `find -type f -name \*.o |egrep -v '(libdnet-stripped|libpcap|libpcre)/'`


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