[Clamav-devel] Another race condition in ClamAV ??

2005-04-24 Thread Joanna Roman
If freshdb overwrite the virus databases when clamd was in the middle of reloading them, clamd might end up having loaded corrupted databases. Does everyone agree that such a window exists ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

[Clamav-devel] Re: [Clamav-users] Another race condition in ClamAV ??

2005-04-24 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:24:51PM -0400, Dale Walsh said: If freshdb overwrite the virus databases when clamd was in the middle of reloading them, clamd might end up having loaded corrupted databases. Does everyone agree that such a window exists ? The freshclam part is atomic - it