Re: External call for nmap

[Matt Burnett <marukka () mac com>]

Yeah a lot of people (including me) write programs that call nmap directly.
Im not on the nmap dev team but I doubt this anyone will turn nmap into a
library, I havent checked but I just doubt it will happen. Its not that hard
to launch nmap with the apis provided on any unix/linux box, probably
wind0ze too. On MacOS X its trivial to run cli programs via the NSTask
class, if you don¹t have a mac then GNUstep might provide that class. Then
most frontends just dump stdout to a text box. If you need to know specific
information then either use regular expressions to scan stdout, or read
nmap's XML log. 

On 12/1/03 2:04 PM, "Laurent Estieux"
<laurent.estieux.mail_spam_interdit () free fr> wrote:

> I don't know if this is the right mailing-list to post this question but
> I try :) (sorry for my poor english)
>
> I see many program around nmap and when I look into the code, all of
> them are calling directly the binary.
>
> So, is it planned to make an nmap library ? I saw a few years ago, a
> post which made me hoping for such an API but I don't know if this idea
> is just postponed or was cancelled...
>
> I know it would be more constructive to help coding such a feature but,
> I'm not a real "hacker", just an nmap addicted user. (nothing to compare
> with Trinity :) )
>
> laurent dot estieux at free dot fr
>
>
>
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