Re: many scripts with output cause abort

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:07:27 -0600
David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:26:42AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> > > > I've run into a problem that causes an ABORT for all the
> > > > branches I'm doing performance testing on for NSE. The problem
> > > > appears to be unrelated to NSE except having huge numbers of
> > > > scripts with output seems to cause it. Sometime while the
> > > > output table is being printed the code will mess the heap up.
> > > > I've attached example output and the shell script that creates
> > > > the scripts.

...snip...

> > Attached is the patch that fixes this problem.
>
> Please do commit this patch while we are looking at your other
> NmapOutputTable patch. Then Patrick can continue with his performance
> testing.
>
> David Fifield

I've committed the fix.  Patrick, I didn't feel comfortable committing
to your branch too so if you'd like to go ahead and do a merge things
should work now.

David, I'll see about addressing your questions/suggestions for my more
complete patch.  It will take some time testing.

Brandon

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