[Clamav-devel] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Micah Snyder wrote:
> ?On 10/4/19, 11:40 AM, ... G.W. Haywood ... wrote:
> >    ...
> >    Perhaps it would be better to check for things which can be checked
> >    quickly *before* loading nine million signatures.
>
> ... I suppose it's a bit of a poor excuse to make functional changes
> to make testing easier.

Quite so. :)

> Others expressed concern that it shouldn't background or accept
> connections until everything is up.

And I agree with them.

> We could certainly check if the socket is available first just to
> fail early if needed, but not bind to it or accept connections until
> after the database is loaded.

That would get my vote.

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73,
Ged.