Re: [Patch] Resubmitting: Upgrade libpcap to 1.5.3

["Gisle Vanem" <gvanem () yahoo no>]

"Jay Bosamiya" <jaybosamiya () gmail com> wrote:

> I sent the mail (the one below) earlier but it is not showing up on the 
> archives. Maybe something with the patch being too large (800 KB) or 
> something?

It seems the lack of response on your diffs (here on dev () nmap org) has
(1) something to with the size of your diffs. Almost 1 MByte uncompressed!
 E.g. diffs of libpcap/scanner.c and libpcap/grammar.c are totally unneeded 
 since those files are generated from libpcap/scanner.l and libpcap/grammar.y.

(2) Or. I don't know if you got some private replied to your patches. It's hard to tell
 since the way this mailing-list is setup; there is no 'Reply-to:' header. Hence many 
 mailers (including my good old Outlook Express) send a reply (by default) to the 
 'From:' (i.e. you) address. So a discussion could easily die out quickly.

(3) Since there's no bug-tracker, it's possible that good ideas and bug-report gets
 forgotten or simply ignored due to lack of time or interest from the maintainer(s).
 Your guess is as good as mine. 

But there are other important ideas here:
 http://nmap.org/soc/index.html

(not only at https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/todo/nmap.txt)

Especially the "parallelized Nmap's forward DNS". It would be nice to have C-ares, 
GNU-adns or some other DNS-lib do this. No need to reinvent the wheel. But 
maybe someone is afraid of yet another external dependency. I cannot see any
problem with that.

--gv
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