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

[Magnus Henoch]

Magnus Henoch <address@hidden> writes:

[ FTP server doesnt handle 'rename FROM TO' where FROM is an absolute
path ]
> Looks like an FTP server bug.  The server doesn't tell what it's
> running; I'll ask my ISP about that.

They are now aware of the problem, but won't fix it (at least not
now), as tla is pretty much the only client which uses absolute
pathnames.

Thus, I patched my way around the problem:

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.

Magnus