Re: Shinnok's Status Report - #8 of 17

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 10:47 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:58:37AM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> > > Greetings nmap-dev,
> > >
> > > Here goes my eight status report.
> > >
> > > Accomplishments:
> > > *[Ncat]Ncat portable for Windows
> > > *[Ncat]--exec server modes are non-blocking on Windows too.
> > > *[Ncat]reviewed Marek's new proxy patch
> > > *[Ncat]Fix Ncat accepting multiple connections while not in server mode.
> >
> > This might just be a matter of terminology, but what do you mean here?
> > There is "connect mode" and "listen mode" and "broker mode"; do you mean
> > that there was a bug in connect mode or broker mode?
>
> It is a matter of terminology because listen mode has three modes:
> single listen(this one works as expected after my patch), keep-open and
> broker.
> By server mode I refer to the last two while the first one is pretty
> obvious. If this terminology is wrong, feel free to list the correct
> terminology that I should use and I will stick with that. :-)

Yes, "server mode" make me think of --listen, with or without
--keep-open. I would stick to the terminology "connect mode," "listen
mode," and "broker mode," because that's what we use in the
documentation. I think of --keep-open as an option on top of --listen,
not as a mode of its own.

> The bug was in single listening mode, because it was accepting more then
> one connection. The fix is in r24197.

It was accepting them, and then immediately disconnecting them, right?
And now it closes the listening socket after the first connection?

David Fifield
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