[clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 23 June 2015 13:24:11 MarkusGMX wrote:
> Am 23/06/15 um 14:10 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > On Monday 22 June 2015 19:01:34 Dennis Peterson wrote:
> >> And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan.
> >
> > And what might that result in?
> >
> > Warnings like that demand a scenario describing statement where it
> > could backfire.
>
> Perhaps he is thinking of the case where all various clamscan write to
> the same file?

While in the case of a fixed name logfile, I could see that happening, 
but in the case of quarrantining a suspect file, again to a fixed global 
name, that would appear to be solved automatically by the file locking 
mechanism and properly serialized.  If that fails, then that OS has a 
heck of a lot worse problems than that & deserves what it got.

> Thanks for all the answers.
>
> Does anybody have experience with (or even a ready script for) 'GNU
> parallel' ?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Parallel.html
> ls -d bin/* | parallel clamscan
> looks easy but logging may be difficult in this case too.
>
> Are there plans to put multithreading to clamscan too?
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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