ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Julian Field]

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Rick Cooper wrote:

>>-----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
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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):
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>NOTES
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>    * 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().
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>But if it's all *nix I would suppose the separator issue wouldn't be a
>factor.
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It's all *nix. I support Mac OSX but not Classic. For the windows guys,
cygwin handles / quite intelligently anyway.

I must get around to working on the OSX port this summer, it would be
good to get it going properly.

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