Status Report for Drazen #14 of 16

[Dražen Popović <drazen.popovic () fer hr>]

Hi all.

Accomplishments:
      * Started working on PIDL module which will generate MSRPC code
        for NSE. For now it generates interface definitions, structures
        and typedefs. What's left is to generate the actual stubs.
      * Contacted SAMBA developer Jelmer Vernooij which maintains PIDL
        and other MSRPC stuff that SAMBA uses. He gave me a few useful
        tips and advices.
Priorities:
      * Finish the stub generation and start testing the generated
        clients. There is a possibility of automatically generating test
        cases for generated stubs. This would consist of generating RPC
        function calls with some predefined values and generating RPC
        server code much like MIDL_BENCH/DRAZEN_SVC RPC service. But
        this is a lower priority.
Notes:
PIDL is written in PERL which gave me a headache during our first
encounter. With all its nasty syntax and lack of code documentation it
took me a while to hack it. Know I see that PIDL is pretty well
programmed as it offers me a way of generating msrpc code with ease. For
all you PERL dudz out there I would very much like to here some
criticism considering my perl programming. I checked out PIDL from
SAMBAs GIT repository and copied it into my "nmap-exp/drazen" directory.
So one can download the  current NMAP module for PIDL from:
svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap-exp/drazen/var/PIDL


Cheers,
Dražen.
-- 
Laboratory for Systems and Signals
Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
University of Zagreb
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