Re: [nmap-svn] r12765 - nmap/docs

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:47:32PM -0600, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > +o Consider whether we should include some sort of NSE debugger.  Or we
> > +  could include something simpler.  For example, some developers (such
> > +  as Ron) already make use of Patrick's traceback.nse in their
> > +  experimental trees.
>
> One of the nice things about the new Lua script engine is a developer
> can _very_ easily change the engine to include new debugging output
> without recompiling the nmap. I think there is room for more standard
> debugging info (such as outputting a stack trace when a script
> finishes) to be added throughout the NSE scan but I think we should
> encourage developers to add their own personalized debugging output
> directly to the engine.

I hadn't thought of this benefit of nse-lua. Even users running from a
Windows or Mac OS X executable installer could hack nse_main.lua and do
their own debugging. I also think just having access to debug.debug
would be nice. I think Nmap's taking control of the TTY is the only
obstacle to that?

David Fifield

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