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List:       clamav-devel
Subject:    Re: [Clamav-devel] [Clamav-users] [Fwd: 0.93.1 / libclamav: no
From:       Marcus Neukert <marcus.neukert () webde ! de>
Date:       2008-07-18 10:02:46
Message-ID: 48806A46.9090809 () webde ! de
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Hello,

I attached a patch which gives the user the opportunity to build 
libclamav for reporting the error-states CL_EMAX* and CL_EFORMAT.

to activate this feature, clamav-source-code must be compiled with 
'-DCLAMAV_REPORT_ALL_ERRORS'.
The patch is backward-compatible: if compiling clamav with the patch and 
without the define, you have the old behaviour.

is there a chance to integrate this patch in the official source-code?

Best,
Marcus

James Kosin schrieb:
 > Marcus Neukert wrote:
 >> no answer does mean: there is no chance to change it?
 >>
 >>
 > There may have been a chance to change it when the developers proposed
 > the change in the functionality originally on this list.  The change was
 > to get rid of the "ZipTooLarge" virus definition; which caused more
 > confusion than it solved.
 > And also; unfortunately, many milters consider any non-zero value as a
 > VIRUS regardless of the return code.  So even if we had the granularity
 > we would still end up with a lot of complaints about the issue.
 >
 > The solution you are posing would require all the milters be updated to
 > have a three stage error message:
 >  1) Successful, NO VIRUS.
 >  2) Unsuccessful, due to space or limits set.
 >  3) VIRUS detected.
 >
 > The case 1 would be the message would be delivered,  2 the message may
 > be delivered with a "warning" about the reason for the failure, 3 the
 > message would be rejected for a VIRUS.
 >
 > James
 >
 >
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