nmap_tty and debugging

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:52:59AM -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> I noticed the NSE Infrastructure list of possible tasks was a bit
> short so I thought I'd add some things I'd like to see done that I
> don't have time to do myself right now:
>
> o NSE debugger:
>   o Find a way to fix nmap_tty to allow Lua-like debugging (a la debug.debug()).

I don't disagree that this is a good idea. As a note to people who need
to know the current workaround to this problem, it's to use the
(undocumented?) --noninteractive option. That makes it so Nmap doesn't
grab the TTY and you can see your own typing in the Lua debugger. I also
use it with "valgrind --db-attach=yes". A side effect is that you lose
runtime interaction.

David Fifield
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