[Fwd: Re: 3.0.25 svn rev. 21433]

[simo]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 19:59 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> I see no gain in putting the code in our tree because it will
> make it harder for the people maintaining the virus code
> scanning portions.  We really have to break ourselves from
> relying monolithic coding practices (IMO).

It would be much easier if we could use a standardized protocol to pass
filenames and/or streams of data into a pipe, and let antivirus vendors
implement the listening daemon. This way we would not have to care about
the scanning side and I bet many other projects would benefit as well
(ftp/http servers for uploads, web proxies, mail servers ...)

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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