Re: Ignored state broken in grepable output

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:59:26PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to reproduce the grepable output in this example:
>
> http://nmap.org/book/output-formats-grepable-output.html#output-formats-ex-grepable-protocol-scanme
>
> but I couldn't get it to show me the "Ignored State: closed (251)". The
> problem is that Nmap's handling of multiple ignored states leaves the
> ignored state as PORT_UNKNOWN when it is finished, and the grepable
> output correctly sees that there are no ports in this "ignored" state,
> and it doesn't print anything.
>
> I have attached a patch that restores the output, but only in the case
> that there is exactly one ignored state. I don't know what it should do
> if there are more than that. I didn't test the patch against a machine
> with more than one ignored state because I couldn't find one.

Looks good to me.  Since the grepable output format is deprecated, I
think it is OK that it not support multiple ignored states unless we
see demand from users that it do so.

Cheers,
-F

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