> I've just started to use ClamAV as part of an evaluation of several = > anti-virus products for our UNIX/Linux networks. Our primary need is to = > scan filesystems. The first thing I noticed was that there was no option = > to preserve file access times, this is a problem for me, since we have = > archive tools that make decisions based on the the access and = > modification times of files.
This patch opens a possible race condition where a legitimate change to the file won't result in the modification time being updated. If the mtime or ctimei s changed after the lstat() call but before the utime call, you lose the change. This would be bad if your backup system decides that the file doesn't need to be backed up or worse can be deleted because it is no longer in use. It probably wouldn't even be hard to trigger the race, since scanning of certain types of files is rather slow. -jeaton -- Jeffrey T. Eaton esp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Systems Programmer Carnegie-Mellon University _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
