Re: ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

Hi there,

On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Micah Snyder wrote:
> ?On 10/4/19, 11:40 AM, ... G.W. Haywood ... wrote:
> >    ...
> >    Perhaps it would be better to check for things which can be checked
> >    quickly *before* loading nine million signatures.
>
> ... I suppose it's a bit of a poor excuse to make functional changes
> to make testing easier.

Quite so. :)

> Others expressed concern that it shouldn't background or accept
> connections until everything is up.

And I agree with them.

> We could certainly check if the socket is available first just to
> fail early if needed, but not bind to it or accept connections until
> after the database is loaded.

That would get my vote.

-- 

73,
Ged.
_______________________________________________

clamav-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel

Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.clamav.net

Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq

http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml