On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: > If you are so desperate to get a real progress bar with nmap, you should > probably hack nmap itself to provide feedback about its work. I think > Fyodor would be happy to accept a patch implementing such a feature.
First, I'd like to apologize for a wrong choice of words that made the tone of my comment somewhat derogatory. I wanted to say I thought it would be better to spent time solving the root of the problem rather than inventing new workarounds. Afaik, some work in this area has already been done by Ian Vitek. The patch has not been integrated but Fyodor is not against the idea of adding some kind of progress reporting to nmap, he just wants a clean, portable and complete implementation. See: http://lists.insecure.org/nmap-dev/2001/Jan-Mar/0003.html http://lists.insecure.org/nmap-hackers/2001/Oct-Dec/0010.html Anyway, speaking of workarounds...of sorts, it appears a less or more trustworthy progress bar might be implemented using nmap's debugging messages. Run nmap with -d -d to see what I mean. This might be the best way to monitor nmap's progress until/unless a "native" method is available. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
