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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sysinstall REALLY needs a "reset FTP state" option, or something 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 96 07:35:45 PST."
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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 14:17:23 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Jordan wrote:
>I just need to install different SIGINT handlers which know how to
>DTRT for various subsections of sysinstall - it's been on my TODO list
>for ages, so thanks for the reminder.

And later:
>Yes, timeouts are supported in libftpio, but we never set one for this
>specific type of failure.

I just tried installing 2.2-BETA and had the same troubles as before;
the FTP session hung due to what appears to be a race condition in
our FTP proxy.  There still doesn't appear to be a timeout, as I left it
hung for over an hour before I hit control-C.  When I hit control-C,
it popped up the "Are you sure you want to abort the installation?"
dialog box and hung, not responding to arrow keys or enter.  I can
still switch virtual consoles, and can still type input on other VC's,
so the keyboard itself isn't hung, it's sysinstall.

  Bill