Henrik, all:
Alberto Wu, a former ClamAV core developer, has very kindly provided a patch to
us today that he created to perform clamd database reloads in a separate
thread. I have attached his work, with some minor tweaks on my part, to the
relevant Bugzilla ticket, here:
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979#c19
This patch applies to the current head of dev/0.102 of our Github repository:
https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel Thank so much Alberto for
submitting the patch. We would appreciate feedback from any who are willing
and able to test the new feature.
Regarding the conversation below... We don't mind nudging or even a little
nagging. In fact, hearing from a wide number of community members on specific
issues is the best way for us to know which bugs or features most need our
attention. That said, do not confuse the fact that we are paid with the
thought that you are paying us. We have a variety of customers both internal
and external and we must prioritize our limited resources to both fix known
issues and add new features for all of our users. We of course always
appreciate help from the community, such as the clamd database reloading
feature patch above.
Respectfully,
Micah
Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
On 8/31/19, 12:54 PM, "clamav-users on behalf of Scott Kitterman via
clamav-users" <clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net on behalf of
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
On August 31, 2019 4:32:00 PM UTC, Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:21:11PM -0400, Scott Kitterman via
>clamav-users wrote:
>>
>> Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you are unhappy with the
>service you
>> are receiving, you should switch to a different vendor. I suspect
>it's
>> unlikely you'll get the same value for money elsewhere.
>
>Does this worn cliche really need posting? :-)
>
>But hey, I'm just participating in the community.. sometimes things
>just
>need a bit of nudging. I wouldn't even continue to nag about it, if
>this
>was a basic volunteer project. But we are talking about a security
>company
>that should be proud of it's code.
There's no problem with nudging, but being nasty about isn't appropriate.
I'll confess that I aimed a comment at you that should have been pointed at the
OP. Sorry about that.
I've been maintaining clamav packages for over a decade through three
different companies owning the project and overall I think the Talos/Cisco
people are doing a pretty good job.
They are generally responsive.
Also, in terms of being proud of their code, you should compare the code
quality when Sourcefire bought clamav to the current code base. It's night and
day different. Also the rate of security bugs seems to have dropped off (not
to mention we actually get bugfix releases now).
So yeah, they could do better, but looking back, I think they're doing
pretty good.
In this case, the 'worn cliche' is important, because unlike lots of other
FOSS projects, this one doesn't have non-proprietary alternatives, so it'd be
pretty awful if the community were to convince Talos that publishing it was
more trouble than it was worth.
Scott K
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