Re: libclamav and INSTREAM

Brandon Perry <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Why would you *have* to write to the disk? No difference between a file handle to something in memory and to a file on the FS.

That being said, i actually used a ramdisk when building my clamav bindings (https://github.com/brandonprry/clam-sharp/).

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> On Nov 20, 2013, at 12:42, Erik Aigner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Helo!
> 
> The clamav daemon has an INSTREAM feature for scanning a stream of data.
> I’m developing Go bindings for libclamav (https://github.com/eaigner/clam) and was
> wondering why there isn’t such a feature in libclamav?
> 
> I searched the libclamav headers for something equal but didn’t find anything similar.
> It seems I can only scan by file handle. If I use a pipe handle, it will fail.
> 
> Is that correct? Do I really have to write (potentially huge) files to disk to scan for clamav?  
> 
> Cheers,  
> 
> --  
> Erik Aigner
> 
> 
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