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

[Stephen Gran]

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.

> BTW, IRC might be useful in such cases, where on IRC would you like this to be
> discussed (if so at all, after all it also means that only those guys in the
> channel get to read the news...)?

I'm in several channels that might fit the bill, or we could start a new
one.  A new one might be nice so that we don't flood -devel with clamav
noise or #clamav with Debian noise, but it's whatever people want.
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