Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:57:03 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: dg@root.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny? Message-ID: <19980502155703.02558@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805021341.GAA22661@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 06:41:32AM -0700 References: <19980502141757.54394@follo.net> <199805021341.GAA22661@implode.root.com>
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On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 06:41:32AM -0700, David Greenman wrote: [... on NLST ...] > It specifically does not provide for multicolumn output, funny characters > added to the filenames to indicate their type, or provide for the passing and > processing of any command options. It takes a pathname argument and nothing > more. The reason that it worked at all with the standard BSD ftpd server is > that that had a kludge in the code to work around getting bogus arguments > to NLST, even though this makes it violate the FTP RFC. > If I wanted to support this in my code, it is more than a matter of > adding a similar kludge - I'll also have to write the code to do those > (-C -F, etc) options, and I'm not too excited about doing that, especially > when the whole point of this exercise was to reduce CPU and memory overhead > on the machine. Would it be feasible to just ignore any bogus arguments? This would probably at least make 'ls' in ncftp give a directory listing, instead of just giving an error message (which IMO makes it unusable :-( It's a hack, but it might still be the right tradeoff. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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