If I understand correctly, the curl requirement is solely to support file descriptor passing via a local Unix socket. If I use a TCP socket (listening only on localhost) for clam, does that eliminate the curl requirement?

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 5:59 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

Hi there,

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 Jonathan Prater wrote:

> ... I found out today that on-access scanning requires curl, and
> some documents indicate that it has to be at least curl 7.45.
> Seeing as I'm on RHEL, I'm dependent on Red Hat's release cycle for
> updates, and their version of curl is only 7.29. What do other RHEL
> users do in this situation? Do I have to get curl's source and
> build a newer version myself?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909113

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-faq/blob/master/manual/UserManual/OnAccess.md

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73,
Ged.

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