Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:09:05 +0530 (IST) From: malli@wipro.wipsys.soft.net (Mallikarjuna Rao) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: malli@wipro.wipsys.soft.net (Mallikarjuna Rao) Subject: why globbing is partial in ftp?? Message-ID: <199605230539.FAA11816@wipro.wipsys.soft.net>
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Hi Hackers,
The ftpd(server) does globbing if the path includes ~. Otherwise
it does not.
For example:
if "/usr/malli" is my home directory and test is a directory in my
home directory.
After loggin
If I do
ftp> cd ~malli/tes*
It works.
If I do
ftp> cd tes* (from /usr/malli)
It does not work. (test directory exists in /usr/malli)
Same thing applys for all ftp commands like get, put, ...
This is because, the 659th line of ftpcmd.y in ftpd checks if the first
character in the path is ~ or not. If it is ~ then it does globbing else
it does not.
Following are few lines of the code
if (logged_in && $1 && *$1 == '~') {
glob_t gl;
int flags =
This behavior of ftp cd command is different from the unix cd command.
I want to know whether this is the standard behavior of ftp or
is this a bug?.
Thanks in advance,
Malli.
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