<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 2K.1beta (1.48) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Database loading</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Database loading"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="clamdoc"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="LaTeX2HTML v2K.1beta"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="clamdoc.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node38.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node36.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node35.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node38.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html908" HREF="node38.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html904" HREF="node35.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html898" HREF="node36.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html906" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="/usr/share/latex2html/icons/contents.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html909" HREF="node38.html">Error handling</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html905" HREF="node35.html">API</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html899" HREF="node36.html">Header file</A>   <B> <A NAME="tex2html907" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H3><A NAME="SECTION00073200000000000000"> Database loading</A> </H3> The following set of functions provides an interface to database initialisation mechanisms: <PRE> int cl_loaddb(const char *filename, struct cl_node **root, unsigned int *signo); int cl_loaddbdir(const char *dirname, struct cl_node **root, unsigned int *signo); const char *cl_retdbdir(void); </PRE> <code>cl_loaddb</code> loads selected database while <code>cl_loaddbdir</code> loads all databases from a <code>dirname</code> directory. <code>cl_retdbdir</code> returns a default (hardcoded) database directory path. After an initialisation an internal database representation will be saved under <code>root</code> (which must initially point to NULL) and a number of loaded signatures will be <B>added</B> <A NAME="tex2html36" HREF="footnode.html#foot339"><SUP>7</SUP></A> to <code>virnum</code>. You can eventually pass NULL if you don't care about a signature counter. Both <code>cl_loaddb</code> and <code>cl_loaddbdir</code> functions return 0 on success and a non-negative value on failure. <PRE> ... struct cl_node *root = NULL; int ret, signo = 0; ret = cl_loaddbdir(cl_retdbdir(), &root, &signo); </PRE> <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> Tomasz Kojm 2004-10-17 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>