Hello,

I attached a patch which gives the user the opportunity to build libclamav for reporting the error-states CL_EMAX* and CL_EFORMAT.

to activate this feature, clamav-source-code must be compiled with '-DCLAMAV_REPORT_ALL_ERRORS'. The patch is backward-compatible: if compiling clamav with the patch and without the define, you have the old behaviour.

is there a chance to integrate this patch in the official source-code?

Best,
Marcus

James Kosin schrieb:
> Marcus Neukert wrote:
>> no answer does mean: there is no chance to change it?
>>
>>
> There may have been a chance to change it when the developers proposed
> the change in the functionality originally on this list.  The change was
> to get rid of the "ZipTooLarge" virus definition; which caused more
> confusion than it solved.
> And also; unfortunately, many milters consider any non-zero value as a
> VIRUS regardless of the return code.  So even if we had the granularity
> we would still end up with a lot of complaints about the issue.
>
> The solution you are posing would require all the milters be updated to
> have a three stage error message:
>  1) Successful, NO VIRUS.
>  2) Unsuccessful, due to space or limits set.
>  3) VIRUS detected.
>
> The case 1 would be the message would be delivered,  2 the message may
> be delivered with a "warning" about the reason for the failure, 3 the
> message would be rejected for a VIRUS.
>
> James
>
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