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Subject: Re: 6.2-Release and Clamd 0.90 with libpthread.so
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Hi,

> If running in foreground works regardless of kern.threads.virtual_cpu
> (there will still be some inefficiencies here because of the
> scheduler and KSE overhead/contention), then it is probably due
> to the application doing a fork() from a threaded application
> without doing an exec().  This is prohibited by POSIX and
> libpthread makes no attempt to allow it.

Yes it works regardless of kern.threads.virtual_cpu.

Yes, fork() is called without exec(). So what's the proper way ? Start
clamd in foreground mode with

daemon /usr/local/sbin/clamd

And redirect stderr ?

Or can this be solved differently ?

Martin