On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:18:16PM -0800, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
Hi,
> while hunting for some other problem I noticed that for plugins which
> use get_kb_item() for a multi-valued key (e.g. Services/www), there
> seems to be a hardcoded 120 second timeout in plug_get_key():
[...]
> alarm(120);
Correct.
> Two questions:
> 1) Should this not use the plugin timeout from nessus.rc?
We _should_ but I've been lazy. And in anyway, this does not really
matter- the parent process is subject to the nessusrc plugin timeout,
and if it dies it will kill the son.
> 2) AFAICS, these forked processes are not counted against the max.
> number of concurrent processes. Is this a correct observation?
This is correct, but notice that they don't run in parallel - it's one
after the other (see the call to wait() made by the parent process).
The fork() call is merely there to have the same context for every script.
-- Renaud
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