On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:17:18AM -0500, Christopher X. Candreva said:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> > What would be the point of having a socket ready before clamd is
> > ready to do any work?  Maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> It would be something for other programs to connect to and wait for a
> response, instead of generating a "socket does not exist" error.

So that they could potentially wait around until their internal timeout,
instead of immediately returning?  That really doesn't seem all that
much like a win to me.  I'd rather that the calling application was
allowed to make an immediate decision (defer this mail, etc) than get
stuck waiting waiting on a reply for an indeterminate amount of time.

I grant you, it doesn't take clam all that long to load it's databases,
but this idea you're advocating doesn't seem like very good application
design to me.
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