Re: Problem solved, bug in sophie found

I recompile Sophie with this new setting, but using
3.76 and 3.77b on Linux I still can't scan for
Troj/Sefex-A. I guess there are some bugs in libsavi
as well. 

--- Markus Stumpf
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:19:36PM +0100, Maciej
> Uhlig wrote:
> > do you happen to know the meaning of all possible
> option values for Sophos
> > options?
> 
> 0 = off
> 1 = on
> for Grp* you can have values > 1. They represent
> "invalid".
> This is not an error, but means "none of the
> configuration options in the
> group will be altered", whatever that means.
> 
> All individual options only take 0 or 1 as valid
> settings. All
> individual options are U32, but 
>     MaxRecursionDepth	U16
>     IdeDir		STR
>     VirusDataDir	STR
>     VirusDataName	STR
> 
> Hmmm ... there is a SOPHOS_TYPE_OPTION_GROUP and the
> Grp* values
> should probably be of that type.
> 
> Ok, I think I have found a bug in sophie.
> sophie sets the Grp* options using a
> SOPHOS_TYPE_U32, but adding the
> line
>     if (STRNCMP(option, "Grp", 3)) stype =
> SOPHOS_TYPE_OPTION_GROUP;
> make my problems go away.
> Now sophie even recognizes the Troj/Sefex-A if
> "Mime: 0" is set.
> 
> The problem is in  sophie_init.c
> In function
>     sophie_set_engine_config()
> look for
>     /* Crap... */
>     if (STRNCMP(option, "MaxRecursionDepth", 17))
> 	stype = SOPHOS_TYPE_U16;
>     else
> 	stype = SOPHOS_TYPE_U32;
> and add the following line
>     if (STRNCMP(option, "Grp", 3)) stype =
> SOPHOS_TYPE_OPTION_GROUP;
> 
> recompile, reinstall.
> 
> 	\Maex
> 
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