From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ftpfs: cosmetic bug
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:58:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021023083800.A37298-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021023140631.GA219@next.gli.cas.cz>
The lines 'transfer complete' give out the answer -- ftpfs tries to walk
all subdirectories when given a glob pattern like the one you have...
a little experimenting, together with the ftpfs source, will show you that
ftpfs 'caches' directory entries, instead of going to the server to fetch
them each time. that's also the case with, for example, freebsd's default
ftp client (especially when one attempts to do 'tab' completion)...
cpu% mv /n/ftp/www/blahblah/blah* .
mv: can't stat /n/ftp/www/blahblah/blah*: '/n/ftp/www' not a directory
cpu% mv /n/ftp/www/blabla* .
226-Transfer complete.
226-Transfer complete.
mv: can't stat /n/ftp/www/blabla*: '/n/ftp/www' file does not exist
cpu%
cpu% ls /n/ftp/blah
226-Transfer complete.
ls: /n/ftp/blah: file does not exist
cpu% ls /n/ftp/blahblahlbalh
ls: /n/ftp/blahblahlbalh: '/n/ftp/blahblahlbalh' file does not exist
cpu% ls /n/ftp/ftpblah
ls: /n/ftp/ftpblah: '/n/ftp/ftpblah' file does not exist
cpu% ls /n/ftp/www/blah
226-Transfer complete.
ls: /n/ftp/www/blah: file does not exist
andrey
side note: sending email from a root account can be
considered an insult on this list :) i've renamed 'root' to
'glenda' on my freebsd machine anyway -- much more aesthetically
pleasing :)
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, root wrote:
> Hi,
> writing to a non-existent directory gives a strange error message:
>
> term% mv /n/ftp/neXt/biology/rel* /n/ftp/neXt/text
> mv: /n/ftp/neXt not a directory
> ========================
>
> term% ls /n/ftp/neXt/text
> ls: /n/ftp/neXt/text: '/n/ftp/neXt' file does not exist
> term% ls /n/ftp/neXt
> /n/ftp/neXt/3D_reconstruction
> /n/ftp/neXt/biology
> /n/ftp/neXt/imaging
> /n/ftp/neXt/libs
> /n/ftp/neXt/rc
>
> Regards,
> ++pac.
> <pac7@post.cz>, for now
>
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2002-10-23 14:06 root
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