Re: A sleep function for NSE

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:14:27PM -0600, Ron wrote:
> David Fifield wrote:
> > One of the Nmap TODO items is a sleep function for NSE. Such a function
> > allows rate-limiting traffic for politeness or to avoid triggering some
> > filter. The attached stdnse.sleep.diff implements such a function.
>
> This is a great idea, and something I was looking for fairly recently.  
> There are places in my code that would greatly benefit from a sleep  
> function.
>
> I just have on question -- does this implementation of Sleep proper  
> yield to other Lua threads (coroutines?) while the sleep is happening,  
> or is everything blocked?

Other threads can run while one thread is sleeping. The sleeping thread
yields control just as if it had done a socket operation or somesuch.

David Fifield

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