Re: nmap parallelization

["Giorgio Zoppi" <giorgio.zoppi () gmail com>]

> All of Nmap's parallelization is implemented by Nmap itself and isn't a
> threading/forking/cloning/multi-process model.  Most of it is done via
> NSOCK's callback architecture.
>
> You'll want to look at UltraScan() in scan_engine.cc and the NSOCK
> library in nsock/
>
> Threading in NSE uses Lua which implements interpreter-level (not
> OS/kernel) threads.
>
> Threading is one of the least portable features out there.  Event with
> good standards like pthreads, Windows and many other OSes do threading
> differently.  Java is a great example of a program that has had to
> contend varying thread support across platforms.  Nmap side-steps the
> problem.

So you're saying that Nmap is using asyncIO (IOCompletion port in
Win32 or asio in Linux) for its main
work, isn't it?
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