There currently is no function call available via the public libclamav API to return the total number of signatures in the database directory. To find this number a developer would need to manually pass the file names to the CVD functions. Since there are multiple files stored in the directory, and filenames change, I don't feel that is a stable interface model.
Why not store the number as part of the cl_stat structure, and return it with a simple function call: unsigned int cl_statsigtotal(const struct cl_stat *dbstat); I like to write this total to the log files so I periodically check to make sure the database is up to date, and has been refreshed inside the daemon. Checking the number against the one on the clamav.net home page is easiest, since I don't have freshclam installed on every server. I used to use the number of signatures returned by the cl_load function, but that function only returns the number of signatures loaded, not the number of signatures available. (When I first implemented my interface, there was no distinction.) _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
