[PATCH PROPOSAL] - remove vfs_scannedonly from samba 4.x source tree

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Mon Jun 15 03:18:22 MDT 2015


On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:00:31PM +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> vfs_scannedonly has largely been superseded in recent releases by
> samba-virusfilter[1]. The developer, SATOH Fumiyasu (cc'ed), has
> expressed an intention of getting samba-virusfilter into upstream Samba.

The main concern with all antivirus solutions is the license
compatibility. When I last looked (a few years ago), many AV solutions,
if at all, give you a proprietary library to link against and not an open,
documented protocol.

Has this changed in recent times?

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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