[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#323803: is this still relevant?

[Michael Tautschnig]

> This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
> > > It looks to me like what the code in recent versions of clamav does is
> > > to open the database on disk, as you said, but this also triggers a
> > > reload of the database in the main process on the next scan request.
> > > Since it is now effectively returning the database version that will be
> > > used by the scan, is this good enough?
> > 
> > Stephen, would you mind explaining me how this code triggers a relaod upon the
> > next scan request? To me the operation of the command seemed to be without any
> > such side-effects, but I can't claim that I'd have seen all of the code.
> 
> Hmm.  I swear I saw that behavior (it was a side effect of reusing some
> of the same code path as the 'do we need to reload' code - it set a flag
> that forced an update next time if the on disk dbs are different from 
> loaded dbs).
> 
> Now, however, I don't see that at all :/  Either I was hallucinating, or
> they've changed that code path.  Now I'm slightly embarassed about my
> reply to the bug report.  Well, I've been a fool in public before, I
> suppose.
> 

I guess it's just too late and I've quite likely missed something. But as I had
dared to forward this upstream before you replied on the bug report, upstream
will tell us what the current state of the union is anyway.

Best,
Michael

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