Re: [NSE] Prerule considerations and concerns

[Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () gmail com>]

On 2010-10-21 21:59:32 -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Djalal Harouni wrote:
> > On 2010-10-16 15:24:21 -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> >
> > For the extra texts:
> > "NSE: Script Pre-scanning.",
> > "NSE: Script scanning 127.0.0.1"
> > "NSE: Script Post-scanning."
> >
> > These messages can be removed easily: we do not print them if all
> > script rules evaluate to false (no threads). A simple patch is attached
> > to remove the two "Pre-scanning" and "Post-scanning" messages.
>
> Thanks Djalal.  BTW, I don't think I'm opposed to the messages like
> this with -v when there are real scripts running.  My concern was that
> scripts were running uneccessarily (e.g. the ones which had their
> conditionals in the action rather than the prerule statement), and a
> side effect of that problem was the pointless (in those cases)
> verbosity.
Ok, I've committed the dns-zone-transfer patch that moves the argument
checks to the rules as r20878, thx.

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tixxdz
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