Re: libfetch ftp patch for less latency

Thomas David Rivers wrote:
The mainframe (z/OS) FTP server does not allow multiple
"directories" in CWD command.

This is due to the mapping of "directories" to flat file names
in the z/OS dataset-name convention.

So - while I can say:

ftp> cd RIVERS
ftp> cd TEST
ftp> cd OBJ

which results in the current working "directory" being
RIVERS.TEST.OBJ. I cannot say

ftp> cd RIVERS/TEST/OBJ

But, I _could_ say:

ftp> cd RIVERS.TEST.OBJ


So - on "different" systems where the idea of "directory" has to
be mapped onto a foreign filesystem, you can get interesting
results.

This may or may-not matter... I was just citing an example.

The important thing is not whether that fails. I'm fine with it
failing, as long as it 1) returns an error code and 2) doesn't change
the current directory.

An ftpd that 1) returned success or 2) changed to some random directory
while returning an error must be buggy. Could you check your server?
It should return some error code and PWD should not change.

--
Nate
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