bin/50690: ftpd -h does not work for the SYST command (patch included)

Alex Semenyaka alexs at ratmir.ru
Thu Apr 17 04:50:07 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR bin/50690; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs at ratmir.ru>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, alexs at snark.ratmir.ru
Subject: Re: bin/50690: ftpd -h does not work for the SYST command (patch included)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:41:12 +0400

 On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:14:48PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > I'm afraid this is likely to break GUI FTP clients,
 > particularly with respect to parsing /bin/ls output.
 > Could you please dispel (or confirm) my apprehension?
 
 I've checked the following ftp-clients:
 
 Cute FTP (Windows)
 FAR filemanager (Windows)
 FTP Commander (Windows)
 MS Internet Explorer (Windows)
 WS FTP (Windows)
 Fetch (MacOS)
 Anarchie (MacOS)
 
 No problem with listing or such was occured. So I thing we can consider those
 changes harmless. Or, if we want to be double-sure, we can introduce "-h"
 for turning on current behaviour and "-h -h" for the new one (do you need the
 corresponding fetch if this way is more preferable?).
 
 								SY, Alex
 


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