Re: Unhandled NSE exceptions

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> Is there a way to make NSE exceptions work more like exceptions in other
> languages? That is, let you catch them if you want, otherwise quit the
> script (not the whole Nmap process) safely.
>
> David

If nsock signaled an error which is caught (via pcall), then yes.
Instead the style chosen was similar to assert
(http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-assert). The problem is
that if the script writer choses to ignore the return values of the
socket methods, the script may go on to do something undesired. Have
you been able to figure out which socket method is causing the
segfault?

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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