Thanks, John.  Asking here was quicker than breaking out that free file
monitor (FileMon) from SysInternals.com ...

Andrew 8)

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From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:39 PM
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Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] Parallel processing


Declude creates a separate directory for each message for scanning, so
while the report name is the same, the directory is unique.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
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> On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Declude.Virus] Parallel processing
> 
> I'm using the f-prot command line scanner, and the lines in the 
> virus.cfg look like this:
> 
> SCANFILE        C:\F-Prot\fpcmd.exe /ai /type /silent /archive=5 /dumb
> /noboot /nomem /packed /report=report.txt
> VIRUSCODE 3
> VIRUSCODE 6
> REPORT  Infection:
> 
> That's working fine, but in my testing I'm only putting a few messages

> through at a time.  I note that the /report variable is setting one 
> specific filename.  What happens when two or more declude processes 
> are launched and both want to call the virus scanner at the same time?

> I realize that scanning is relatively quick, but I can see that 
> collisions would result.
> 
> If Declude doesn't handle this internally to set a different report 
> name per instance, then I think paranoia would pushe me to set 
> MAXATONCE 1 ... ?
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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