Re: [NSE] Named pipe library

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Chris Woodbury <chris3e3 () gmail com> wrote:
> In the process of adding named-pipe support to the SQL Server scripts,
> I created an NSE library for named pipes[1]. The primary component is
> a "named_pipe" class, which is modeled after a socket (i.e. connect(),
> disconnect(), send(), receive() ), and it is essentially a wrapper
> around calls to the SMB library, with some state and logic to make
> things easier. Its main features (aside from its existence) are some
> pipe-specific error handling and automatic reassembly of multi-packet
> messages. In the course of writing it, I added [2] a few bits of
> functionality to smb.lua to support named pipes, including a bugfix
> for the handling of the NT_STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW, which, despite its
> scary name, means that there's another packet coming to complete the
> message. While I'm at it, I have another patch [3] for smb.lua, which
> just adds a bit more detail to a few debug messages.
>
> -chris
>
> [1] namedpipes.lua - I'm not sure if this is better kept separate, or
> merged into an existing library.
> [2] smb_pipe_support.patch
> [3] smb_debug.patch

This library needs either a different name or we should start thinking
about making sub-modules for our libraries (e.g. smb.namedpipe). I
thought at first this was a wrapper around mkfifo ;).

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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