[Bro] postprocessing extracted files

[Seth Hall]

> On Apr 15, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Frank Meier <franky.meier.1 at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I want to use Bro to extract files. After extraction these files will undergo some post-processing (e.g. lookup in a db of known files). Can I be sure, that a file logged in files.log with its hash has been written to disk completely? 

You can handle the file_state_remove event.  At that point, everything about the file is complete and it’s being flushed from memory.

event file_state_remove(f: fa_file)
	{
	# Do what you need.
	}

  .Seth

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