On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Brian Morrison said: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:07:28 -0400 in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > clamdscan has no real way of knowing what the daemon is using, so > > having it output the on disk version is the only thing that makes > > sense. I suppose it could be reimplemented so that clamdscan -V > > contacted clamd to get the version, but again, that seems like > > unnecessary overhead, and would need a fallback in any case. > > Doesn't sound like very much overhead to me, and presumably it would > also cause clamd to reload databases anyway if it had been idle since > the last update notification from freshclam.
That's the point - at the moment VERSION does not cause clamd to reload. If, as I suggested, it does, then this approach might make sense. Otherwise it is wasted effort. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A is for Apple. -- Hester Pryne | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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