Re: [NSE] nmap timing info for scripts

["Eddie Bell" <ejlbell () gmail com>]

On 13/01/2008, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu> wrote:
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> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:13:24 +0000 or thereabouts "Eddie Bell"
> <ejlbell () gmail com> wrote:
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> > My only concern is that usleep will block so will waste time when
> > other scripts could be running . Perhaps there is a more efficient
> > non-blocking way to achieve the same thing (continuation 'yield'
> > style). I don't really know enough about nse internals though.
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> Most people achieve short non-blocking sleeps via calls to select().  I
> suspect there is some Lua interface to select() accomplish this.
>
> Brandon

I was thinking NSE uses co-routines so there may be some internal
mechanism to yield (pause execution) and put it in a sleep state until
a certain time period has elapsed, but again I don't really know
enough about how nse works at the lower levels.

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