Re: pluginload 'bug' fix, patch included

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:47:06AM -0700, Cory Marsh wrote:
> I have noticed "strange" plug-in errors occurring whenever I use CVS to
> maintain my nessus plugins.  This includes mangling the script category
> so that my windows plugins show up in the "sc" category and other
> oddities.  This came to a head yesterday when a new system I setup
> started receiving fork() errors in the log file for each executed
> plugin.  This obviously yielded less than desirable results.  After
> loading nessus in gdb and attaching to the offending processes, I added
> some logging in pluginlaunch.c at line 515:

The weird thing is that nessusd should not attribute any function to
"unknown" plugins - this is why .inc files are not loaded. 

So while I don't really understand why you are encountering this issue,
I doubt your patch is actually the proper way to fix it, and it might
become an inconvienience to some extent.


				-- Renaud