From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 30 06:17:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA05791 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 06:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05783 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 06:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA21129; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:48:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604301318.WAA21129@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Running FTP as a slave process ... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:48:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604300902.SAA20627@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 30, 96 06:32:37 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith stands accused of saying: > > I want to see whether what I've transferred has made it. So I issue an > 'nlist ' command. Oddly enough, it gets written by the slave, > but doesn't immediately show up at my end; in fact it's not until I > ask the slave to quit that I hear it. > > If I had more time, I'd investigate further, but has anyone else done > this before, and what results did they get? *sigh* Finally got totally stonewalled by it - turns out that it uses stdio and doesn't &*^%%$ flush it, despite having (some) support in it for running as an inferior. Nice having the source; easy to hack it to suit. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[