Re: Bugs in the ftp part of mc.

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

Bj?rn Eriksson wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
>
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:05:15PM +0100, SoD wrote:
>
> > Now for the bug report:
> > Im currently using v4.5.55 of midnight commander and has found 2 bugs
> > in the ftp part.  
> > 1: Symlinks that points to a directory with an ending slash (/) cant
> > be resolved. For example: 
> >    if the symlink is created with
> >    ln -s my_directory /ftpd/no_trailing
> >    all works fine but if the symlink is created with 
> >    ln -s my_directory/ /ftpd/trailing
> >    the symlink wont resolve.
> >    When not in ftp mode, midnight commander can handle both versions
> > of symlinks.

It is really so, I keep this tning in mind, but I have not time to fix this.

>  How do you mean the two commands are different?
>
>
> > 2: ctrl-r (as in rescan) doesnt rescan the directory in ftp mode. Not
> > even logging out/in from the site helps.  Only restarting midnight
> > commander seems to help. If one does something at the site (like
> > uploading and removing a file/directory) midnight commander
> > automatically rescans the directory.  So it seems to me that the
> > problem is the ctrl-r command (doesnt help if one uses the drop-down
> > list and chooses rescan from there either).
>
>
>  Look at Options->Virtual FS... and mc.hlp
>
>  << The FTP File System keeps the directory listing it fetches from a
>     ftp server in a cache. The cache expire time is configurable with
>     the ftpfs directory cache timeout option. A low value for this
>     option may slow down every operation on the ftp file System because
>     every operation is accompanied by a query of the ftp server. >>
>
>  but mc.hlp also states that: 
>
>   << ... This has the funny behavior that even if you make changes to a
>     directory, they will not be reflected in the directory listing until
>     you force a cache reload with the C-r key. >>
>     
>  wich doesn't seem to be the case.
Last behaviour is fixed in CVS tree, so ftpfs directory can be reloaded
via ctrl-r now.

You can see how to get latest cvs snapshots at 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/mc,
and I can produce a separate patch on your request.

Regards,
Andrew.