Re: NSE Script to exploit the Windows Vista and 7 SMB 2.0 remote BSOD bug?

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

On 09/14/2009 09:45 AM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> At some point the decision was made to use true/false as a return
> value for most of the socket functions. This value is generally
> redundant. Typically Lua functions will return nil, error_message for
> recoverable errors and the expected values otherwise (which gave rise
> to the assert function). I believe if we make any change we should
> move away from these useless boolean values. Alas compatibility is a
> concern here.

That makes sense, but I know I've written *a lot* of code that depends 
on the (status, result) paradigm. Compatibility, like you said, would 
suffer.

Ron

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