Bugs in the ftp part of mc.

[Andrew V. Samoilov]

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.