From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Non-patch for zftp
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:41:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9902201541.AA37470@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
I've made some changes to zftp; since it applies to pws-8 and I'm about to
produce pws-9, it seems pointless to post it separately, but here is a list
of changes that will appear.
1. The functions in Misc/zftp-functions now avoid using zftp in subshells,
since I discovered that on Irix 6.2 it doesn't work --- the control fd is
invalid after a fork(). That's strange, since I vaguely thought I'd
originally tried it there and it did work. However, I haven't been able to
track down any change which has affected this. It's OK on every other OS
I've tested (the Linux box is currently down).
2. The zf* functions now have auto-open capability: if the connection
times out, `zftp test' should be able to spot this and the functions will
transparently re-open the connection --- assuming you set it up in the
usual way with zfopen. Also, if you explicitly close the connection, a
zfcd or zfdir will re-open it permanently while zfget will open it just for
that file grab (etc.).
3. There are more `return 6' statements in the source; 6 is the special
code for `don't even think about doing anything else', so this ought to
reduce the incidence of multiple error messages.
4. New Functions/Completion/_zftp: currently this uses the old-style
completion functions zfget_match and zfcd_match, but it could be made
smarter. (For example, prefix handling of directories can now be done as
if they were real directories.)
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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