Re: [Clamav-devel] API concerns

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Author: Ladar Levison
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To: ClamAV Development
Subject: Re: [Clamav-devel] API concerns
Would you accept a patch file if I ever have the time?

Tomasz Kojm wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:12:06 -0500
> Ladar Levison <> wrote:
>
>
>> There currently is no function call available via the public libclamav
>> API to return the total number of signatures in the database directory.
>> To find this number a developer would need to manually pass the file
>> names to the CVD functions. Since there are multiple files stored in the
>> directory, and filenames change, I don't feel that is a stable interface
>> model.
>>
>> Why not store the number as part of the cl_stat structure, and return it
>> with a simple function call:
>>
>> unsigned int cl_statsigtotal(const struct cl_stat *dbstat);
>>
>
> Please open a bug report, mark it as enhancement, and we will consider
> such a feature for one of the future releases.
>
>


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