Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:40:06 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, David Rhodus <david@uky.edu> Subject: Re: ftpd mkdir problems Message-ID: <XFMail.20030204134006.mheffner@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030204175224.GB34907@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On 04-Feb-2003 Yar Tikhiy wrote:
| 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.
|
Appears to work on my end. ;-)
Mike
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Mike Heffner <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
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