Stormont, Stephen (IMS) wrote: > We are thinking of utilizing ClamAV, but we wanted to know exactly > how the API is implemented. Does the client makes a socket connection to a > daemon. Or does the client load a shared object file which includes the > provided functionality. Or does the client make a shell call to use a > command line utility. Or is there some other method?
Hi, All the three. Your options are: 1- link your code to libclamav 2- run the clamav daemon (clamd), connect to it via a tcp or unix socket, and speak the clamd proto 3- run one of the provided clients and parse their output. clamscan is linked to libclamav, clamdscan talks to the daemon instead. Everything is documented at http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/ and in the tools manpages. -acab _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
