ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Rick Cooper]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:12 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ClamAV and MailScanner Bug
>
>
[...]

> Fortunately it is a lot easier than that, due to the helpful info about
> the Cwd module. This is a standard supplied module and even the version
> that came with Perl 5.00503 has the necessary function in it.
>
> Apply this patch to WorkArea.pm and it should do the trick nicely. If
> there are links in the dir, then it complains politely about it but
> works properly anyway.
>

I was thinking about your question regarding reliably. I don't honestly know
what OSs MS is ported to and the cwd documentation I had states
(http://perlpod.com/5.9.1/lib/Cwd.html):

NOTES

    * Since the path seperators are different on some operating systems ('/'
on Unix, ':' on MacPerl, etc...) we recommend you use the File::Spec modules
wherever portability is a concern.
    * Actually, on Mac OS, the getcwd(), fastgetcwd() and fastcwd()
functions are all aliases for the cwd() function, which, on Mac OS, calls
`pwd`. Likewise, the abs_path() function is an alias for fast_abs_path().

But if it's all *nix I would suppose the separator issue wouldn't be a
factor.

Rick


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