Re: [NSE] Socket dead-lock

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM,  <nnposter () users sourceforge net> wrote:
> Is it
> perhaps that passing a socket object from thread to thread is
> prohibited?

Yes.

> Even if so, should it result in a dead-lock, as opposed
> to an error?

The consequences are undefined.

> The script performs password guessing, leveraging brute.lua. It is not
> doing any unusual socket work; all it does is connect, read, write, and
> close. It maintains a connection pool so that a new connection is not
> required for every guess attempt. In the course of the run a connection
> may be passed from from one worker to another.

I suggest you setup workers which each manage a single connection.

--
Patrick Donnelly
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