Somebody with better technical knowledge than I will need to get you a complete answer, but my observations tell me that if the file requires decompressed or other type of pre-processing, then temporary files are written to disk, but scans are normally conducted in memory.
Sent from my iPad -Al- On Apr 4, 2019, at 09:18, Wilson, Chad - US via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > Knowledge needed please. > > When streaming files to clamd for scanning, does the daemon write the file or > does it handle all in memory? > > We do not have the temp directory uncommented/specified, so IF it writes it > first, where does it write to? > > If it writes first, then do we have the risk of another on access scanner > interrupting clamd? > > If it handles all in memory, then no other questions. > Thanks. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
