Re: non existent script called with --script=all

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Fyodor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:18:43AM -0500, Ron wrote:
> > Fyodor wrote:
> > My thought is, if it's generated on the fly, you wouldn't ever need to
> > write to the file. That would solve all your issues. The downside, I
> > suppose, is that it wouldn't be scalable.
>
> Yeah, the whole point of the file is to avoid the overhead of reading
> every script and generating a category table each time.  But maybe
> that is an over-optimization.  If anyone wants to make a patch which
> does it all fly, and then benchmarks that version to determine the
> computation time differences with and without script.db, that would be
> great!  It is important to test it with 1,000+ scripts though.  NSE
> only comes with 56 scripts now, but it continues to grow.  You could
> create such a large number of scripts by taking about 20
> differently-named copies of each of our current scripts.  That way you
> still have some diversity compared to 1,000 copies of the same trivial
> script.  Or I suppose 1,000 copies of one of our more complex scripts
> might be OK for testing.
>
> If doing category generation on the fly with 1,000+ scripts does not
> materially increase computation time, I'd support eliminating
> script.db and doing that.

When I suggested this very same idea over a year ago (when it was shot down by
you and Brandon), you said that Diman had already tested with many scripts:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0514.html

(and http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0513.html is Brandon's detailed reply)

> Cheers,
> -F

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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