This one time, at band camp, Nick Boyce said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > >"There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers > >for zip and rar before trying the specified external unpackers. This > >breaks rar and some zip scanning for no clearly good reason. I am > >talking with upstream about it." > > Ah .. thanks very much for the explanation .. the code sounds weird :) > > Shouldn't it : > call the external unpackers if specified > else call the internal unpackers if compiled in > else skip ? > [i.e. treat any specified external unpacker as an override to any > available internal one] I certainly think so. I suspect this is an ancient code path that has been forgotten about as the code base moved on. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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