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 <H2><A NAME="SECTION00071000000000000000">
 General API</A>
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     Every program based on libclamav must include the <I>clamav.h</I> header
     file:
     <PRE>
 	#include &lt;clamav.h&gt;
 </PRE>
     A first step is to initialize the scanning engine. There are three
     functions available:
     <PRE>
 	int cl_loaddb(const char *filename, struct cl_node **root,
 	int *virnum);
 
 	int cl_loaddbdir(const char *dirname, struct cl_node **root,
 	int *virnum);
 
 	char *cl_retdbdir(void);
 </PRE>
     <I>cl_loaddb()</I> loads a particular database, <I>cl_loaddbdir()</I>
     loads all <I>.cvd</I> (and older <I>.db</I>, .db2) databases from a
     directory <I>dirname</I>. <I>cl_retdbdir()</I> returns a hardcoded
     database directory path. Initial internal database (Aho-Corasick tree,
     trie; see <A HREF="node47.html#engine">6.3</A>) will be saved under <I>root</I> and a number of
     signatures loaded will be <B>added</B> <A NAME="tex2html45"
   HREF="footnode.html#foot510"><SUP>7</SUP></A> to <I>virnum</I>. Pointer to the trie
     must initially point to NULL. If you don't care about number of signatures
     pass NULL as a third argument. <I>cl_loaddb</I> functions return 0 on
     success and other value on failure.
     <PRE>
 	    struct cl_node *root = NULL;
 	    int ret;
 
 	ret = cl_loaddbdir(cl_retdbdir(), &amp;root, NULL);
 </PRE>
     There's an elegant way to print libclamav's error codes:
     <PRE>
 	char *cl_strerror(int clerror);
 </PRE>
     <I>cl_strerror()</I> returns a (statically allocated) string describing
     a <I>clerror</I> code:
     <PRE>
 	if(ret) {
 	    printf("cl_loaddbdir() error: %s\n", cl_strerror(ret));
 	    exit(1);
 	}
 </PRE>
     When database is loaded you must build the final trie with:
     <PRE>
 	void cl_buildtrie(struct cl_node *root);
 </PRE>
     In our example:
     <PRE>
 	cl_buildtrie(root);
 </PRE>
     OK, now you can scan a buffer, a descriptor or a file with:
     <PRE>
 	int cl_scanbuff(const char *buffer, unsigned int length,
 	char **virname, const struct cl_node *root);
 
 	int cl_scandesc(int desc, char **virname, unsigned long int
 	*scanned, const struct cl_node *root, const struct cl_limits
 	*limits, int options);
 
 	int cl_scanfile(const char *filename, char **virname,
 	unsigned long int *scanned, const struct cl_node *root,
 	const struct cl_limits *limits, int options);
 </PRE>
     All the functions save a virus name address under <I>virname</I> pointer.
     <I>virname</I> points to a name in the trie structure thus it can't be
     released directly. <I>cl_scandesc()</I> and <I>cl_scanfile()</I> can
     increase the <I>scanned</I> value in CL_COUNT_PRECISION units, they also
     support archive limits:
     <PRE>
 	struct cl_limits {
 	    int maxreclevel;
 	    int maxfiles;
 	    long int maxfilesize;
 	};
 </PRE>
     The last argument configures scan engine. Currently it supports
     <B>CL_ARCHIVE</B> (enables archive scanning), <B>CL_RAW</B>
     (disables archive scanning) and <B>CL_MAIL</B> (enables mbox
     and Maildir scanning) and <B>CL_DISABLERAR</B> (disables the built-in
     RAR unpacker which leaks like hell). These functions return 0
     (<B>CL_CLEAN</B>) when no virus is found, <B>CL_VIRUS</B> when virus
     is found and other value on failure.
     <PRE>
 	    struct cl_limits limits;
 	    char *virname;
 
 	/* maximal number of files in archive */;
 	limits.maxfiles = 1000
 	/* maximal archived file size == 10 MB */
 	limits.maxfilesize = 10 * 1048576;
 	/* maximal recursion level */
 	limits.maxreclevel = 5;
 
 	if((ret = cl_scanfile("/home/zolw/test", &amp;virname, NULL, root,
 	&amp;limits, CL_ARCHIVE)) == CL_VIRUS) {
 	    printf("Detected %s virus.\n", virname);
 	} else {
 	    printf("No virus detected.\n");
 	    if(ret != CL_CLEAN)
 	        printf("Error: %s\n", cl_strerror(ret));
 	}
 </PRE>
     Release the trie if you no longer need it:
     <PRE>
 	void cl_freetrie(struct cl_node *root);
 </PRE>
     You will find an example scanner in clamav sources (/example). Program
     based on libclamav must be linked against it:
     <PRE>
 	gcc -Wall ex1.c -o ex1 -lclamav
 </PRE>
     Enjoy !
 
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