Re: [PATCH] prevent NSE initialization when no scripts are to be used

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:07:51PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> -sV enables NSE scripts in the "version" category, and there are only a
> few of those. http://nmap.org/nsedoc/categories/version.html. If none of
> them produce output, which is the common case, the output will be the
> same as if NSE version detection had not been done.

Thank you for the explanation.  We have nothing further to patch in this
respect, then. :-)  ...unless there's ever a reason to allow to fully
disable NSE from the command-line.  With the current 3 scripts, the
memory consumption is not high (I've just tested, on a single target
host though), but maybe as the number of "version" scripts grows, there
will be a need to allow for disabling them.

Alexander

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