[Mimedefang] McAfee uvscan workaround (was: uvscan exceedingly slow)

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:

> Examining further the output of "strace uvscan ...", it was obvious
> that two 5-6 second delays occur when uvscan apparently tries to
> open the /dev/hda device.

Why on Earth would it try opening /dev/hda???  There *must* be a
command-line option telling uvscan only to look in the files or
directories specified on the command-line, and nowhere else.  Opening
/dev/hda (unless specifically asked) is just plain rude.

Regards,

David.