On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:35:50 -0500 (EST)
Ed Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> clamscan detects the "broken on purpose" ZIP files and reports an
> error message (correctly), when you scan the ZIP file directly or when
> you scan the directory containing the broken ZIP file. clamd, however,
> ignores all errors while scanning a directory hierarchy, so in the
> case where it's scanning a directory that contains only the broken ZIP
> file, you get an OK message from clamd (very broken behavior IMO!). 

This is already fixed in CVS:

Sun Oct 26 06:26:14 CET 2003 (tk)
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  * clamd: report file errors with CONTSCAN (suggested by Daniel Fraga)

> Yes, I know 20030317 is very old, but it has stayed running since the
> time we installed it, and the more current snapshots of clamd crash
> pretty quickly for us.  And, it appears clamd still works the same way

20030317 contains _two_ dangerous race conditions and I don't believe
it's stable.

Best regards,
Tomasz Kojm
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