On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:19 +0200, Thomas Lamy wrote: > Joanna Roman wrote: > > Hi What would happen if the clamd is notified by > > freshdb to reload the db when the clamd is in the > > middle of scanning something. I have not read that > > part of the code yet. But if you know the answer on > > top of your head, pls inform me. > > > > > AFAIR the thread manager (main thread) wait for all workers to finish > (and suspends worker creation) on reload event, going back to normal > operation after the reload has finished.
Thats correct for the current release. The CVS code currently uses ref counting to overcome this limitation, so when a reload is requested, a new signature tree is generated, and the old one is free'd when all current scanning has finished. -trog
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