SophosSAVI Broke?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 18 08:24:39 IST 2003


Ah, well done. I agree it shouldn't be needed, but if it solves the problem....

At 19:53 17/09/2003, you wrote:
>Ok. Now I'm confused.
>
>  I've been able to track down the problem to line 321 ("$SAVI = new
>SAVI();") of SweepViruses.pm.
>
>  The children die at this point.
>
>  Now for the strange thing.. For whatever reason, everything works fine if I
>add a print statement right before 'new SAVI();' is called. Even though the
>print statement doesn't get displayed anywhere, it seems to work when it's
>there. If I remove it, the children die again.
>
><   $SAVI = new SAVI();
>---
> >   print "creating SAVI\n";  $SAVI = new SAVI();
>
>
>  I can't reproduce the problem outside of MailScanner though. Everything
>works fine in the scan.pl example that's included with the SAVI-Perl package
>and in some small scripts I wrote to test it out.
>
>
>  I think I'm going crazy.
>
>-Joshua

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