[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Can't create .listing files over FTP

[Magnus Henoch]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:

>> http://w1.312.comhem.se/~u31227643/archives/
>> address@hidden/tla--ftpbug--1.3
>> 
>> I made pfs_ftp_rename change to the directory of the file to be
>> renamed/moved, and change back afterwards.  This switching back and
>> forth is suboptimal, but not knowing the code well I'm not sure which
>> functions might depend on the current working directory.
>> 
>> This works for me, at least.  Not sure if it would be worth merging
>> into tla, as it seems to be a quite rare problem.
>
> if you make it kick in automatically:
> when the rename fails attempt with relative path, and remember that
> failure, then it would make sense to me to merge.

Now I've done that too.  In patch-2, it tries absolute path first,
and falls back to relative path on failure.  In patch-3, it remembers
such failures as the absolute_rename_bug member of
arch_pfs_ftp_session.

The latter breaks the style of arch_pfs_ftp_session, which is why I
made sure to break the change up in two parts.  I'm not sure whether I
like it or not; maybe there's a better way to do it.

Regards,
Magnus