Re: [Clamav-devel] CalmAV In-Memory Scan

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Engstler
Hi, Thanks for the quick response. Your suggestion sounds interesting, but from what I've seen if you give clamd a file path, it would copy the file to the temporary directory and perform its tests on the copied file. This means that even if i memory map my file, the test would still be done

Re: [Clamav-devel] CalmAV In-Memory Scan

2017-04-05 Thread Eugene Crosser
On 04/05/2017 09:27 PM, Michael Engstler wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that when using the INSTREAM command and sending it a memory > buffer of a file, clamd takes the memory buffer and saves it to > the TemporaryDirectory (as defined in the config file). > > This is an unnecessary overhead as it

Re: [Clamav-devel] CalmAV In-Memory Scan

2017-04-05 Thread Brandon Perry
> On Apr 5, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Michael Engstler wrote: > > Hi, > I noticed that when using the INSTREAM command and sending it a memory > buffer of a file, clamd takes the memory buffer and saves it to > the TemporaryDirectory (as defined in the config file). > > This is

[Clamav-devel] CalmAV In-Memory Scan

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Engstler
Hi, I noticed that when using the INSTREAM command and sending it a memory buffer of a file, clamd takes the memory buffer and saves it to the TemporaryDirectory (as defined in the config file). This is an unnecessary overhead as it requires disk IO in order to scan the file which is already