"No difference between a file handle to something in memory and to a file on the FS.”
Apparently there is, otherwise it would work with a memory file handle. -- Erik Aigner On Wednesday 20 November 2013 at 20:15, Brandon Perry wrote: > Why would you *have* to write to the disk? No difference between a file > handle to something in memory and to a file on the FS. > > That being said, i actually used a ramdisk when building my clamav bindings > (https://github.com/brandonprry/clam-sharp/). > > Sent from a computer > > > On Nov 20, 2013, at 12:42, Erik Aigner <aigner.e...@gmail.com > > (mailto:aigner.e...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > Helo! > > > > The clamav daemon has an INSTREAM feature for scanning a stream of data. > > I’m developing Go bindings for libclamav (https://github.com/eaigner/clam) > > and was > > wondering why there isn’t such a feature in libclamav? > > > > I searched the libclamav headers for something equal but didn’t find > > anything similar. > > It seems I can only scan by file handle. If I use a pipe handle, it will > > fail. > > > > Is that correct? Do I really have to write (potentially huge) files to disk > > to scan for clamav? > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Erik Aigner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
