Re: [NSE] dns-brute - DNS brute-forcer

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> I've only briefly looked over the code. What's with the 7900 magic
> number here?
>
>    if (howmany > 7900) then
>        --Cannot unpack a list with more than 7900 items so we will set it to 7900
>        stdnse.print_debug("Hostlist items per thread is more than 7900. Setting to 7900.")
>        howmany = 7900
>    end

Lua C functions are limited to a maximum stack size of 8000 (I
believe) in Lua 5.1. In Lua 5.2 this limit is increased to 1e6.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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