On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:41:31 -0300 "Aecio F. Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2005 08:05:51: > > > Please do not use cl_scanbuff at all, it's to be removed in 0.90. > > This function only supports old type signature scanning and will > > miss many viruses (just try to scan test/clam.exe). You should > > definitely use cl_scanfile/cl_scandesc instead. Due to performance > > reasons you can suggest your users to use a memory based filesystem > > for proxy file operations (then also add some option to havp that > > will allow to set that directory in libclamav with cl_settempdir()) > > Too bad scanbuff is being retired. I really enjoy the idea of mem > buffer scanning. > Is there any plan to improve and keep it or removal of it *is* a fact? > > I haven't been following clamav development very close lately, so I > don't understand why it only supports "old type signature". Is there > an easy answer to that? Yes, there is: it only works on buffers and not on files; it's not possible to use absolute offsets, file types and other special markers with buffers. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Tue Feb 22 13:41:51 CET 2005
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