Re: [NSE] Parallel Worker Thread Patch

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com> wrote:
> Here is a patch to add worker threads to NSE for scripts to use. Right
> now a script is limited in parallelism to working on one socket at any
> time. A script can now create a worker thread that will be capable of
> doing work on sockets in parallel with the parent script. It is
> helpful to view these worker threads as another instantiation of your
> script with its own custom action function (main function). The worker
> threads, however, cannot generate script output. As an example use
> case, an HTTP spider script can use worker threads to perform many
> requests in parallel instead of serially.

This patch is now committed in revision 16065.

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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