Re: [NSE] A Lua implementation of NSE--detailed review

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Patrick Donnelly
<batrick.donnelly () gmail com> wrote:
> I originally intended to set it up so that the userdata would replace
> the tables, but there would be problems with complexity and backwards
> compatibility. The main motivation for the userdata approach is NSE
> will have easy access to the host and ports for each thread. In
> particular, timeouts and script output are more easily set. We could
> _not_ expose these userdata to the scripts and make the totable()
> method do all the work (that is, remove the other bound methods such
> as HostName()). I got the impression though that users want access to
> the internal data for these Targets and Ports [1], and userdata with
> methods seemed like the best approach. While the "access" is mostly
> redundant considering the garbage tables, the new userdata allow us to
> easily bind other methods a script writer may need.

Sorry, that [1] should have referred to [2]:

[2] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q4/0537.html

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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