[clamav-users] Meaning of the exit code -1073740791

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, Anastasiia Korzhylova wrote:

> I am using ClamAV for work in my company and am contacting you to inquire about an exit code, which the software returns at my attempt to scan an ordinary, virus-free PDF file:
>
>            -1073740791.
>
> Could you, please, tell me, what the exit code stands for, as I have not found any information on it in the documentation on your website.

It's possible that something in ClamAV is having difficulty with some
part of the PDF file, but you have not given enough information for us
to know what you have done so that we could reproduce it if necessary.

If you can repeat the command using verbose logging or verbose output
(see the documentation for how to do that) ClamAV might might provide
more information to you which might help you.

If you can put a copy of the PDF file somewhere on the Web for us so
that we can scan it in the same way that you do that might help too.

But we really need you to tell us exactly what you did.  When you do
that, please include information about your operating system(s), the
version of ClamAV which you are using, how you obtained and installed
it, which parts of it you are using (for example clamd and clamdscan,
or clamscan), the command(s) which you gave when ClamAV gave the exit
code, and the *entire* output of the command.

The output of

clamconf -n

will include much of the information we need and would help us.

Incidentally

1073740791 - 2^30 + 2^10 + 2^3 + 2^0 = 0

Which tells me that a number of flags is set in the return code, but
at the moment I do not know what they are nor why they are being set
because I have no idea what is producing the return code. :/

-- 

73,
Ged.