Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:52:25 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: David Rhodus <david@uky.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd mkdir problems Message-ID: <20030204175224.GB34907@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030204030531.mheffner@vt.edu> References: <B4E1A495-352E-11D7-820C-0050E460845F@uky.edu> <XFMail.20030204030531.mheffner@vt.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:05:31AM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote: > > On 31-Jan-2003 David Rhodus wrote: > | Using the default ftpd that comes with FreeBSD, in the mkdir command, > | why doesn't it expand '~', the cd and rmdir commands seem to. Passing > | over the code it just calls the c function with should expand it. > > No, the system calls don't expand a tilde. The expansion is done in > ftpcmd.y under the 'pathname' directive using glob(3), but glob(3) won't > expand the tilde when the directory doesn't exist. Lukemftpd works around > this by implementing its own '~' expansion code. Yar has been working on > ftpd recently, you might want to ask him if he has any plans to address > this. I've got inspiration to fix this bug in CURRENT today :-) Would everyone concerned mind testing my change to ftpd(8) and giving me your feedback? Thanks. > | ftp> cd ~will > | 250 CWD command successful. > | ftp> mkdir ~will/test > | 550 ~will/test: No such file or directory. > | ftp> mkdir test > | 257 "test" directory created. > | ftp> rmdir ~will/test > | 250 RMD command successful. > | ftp> -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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