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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall REALLY needs a "reset FTP state" option, or something 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:56:26 PST."
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:35:45 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The problem is actually that the client sends "RETR foo" to the
> server and never receives a response.  It'd be nice if sysinstall
> (ftplib?) had a timeout for responses from the server, so that
> things like this don't completely hose the install.  (If it
> closed and reopened the connection, it could continue).

Yes, timeouts are supported in libftpio, but we never set one for this
specific type of failure.

This makes me even gladder that I finally converted sysinstall to use
libftpio, since fixing this here will also now fix fetch(1). :-)

						Jordan