Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 22:52:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/bin/ftp Message-ID: <199901080652.WAA00573@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Jan 1999 04:42:36 %2B0100." <xzpbtka8m6r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> There was a discussion about FTP clients on #FreeBSD today, and in > connection with that I discussion I noticed that there are bugs in > ftp(1)'s argument handling. For instance, "dir |more", which is > suggested in the man page as an example of piping, doesn't work - it > requires one argument in front of the one with the pipe (so "dir . > |more" works) > > I also noticed that there's a lot of redundancy in cmds.c - > practically each command is implemented as a separate function that > does its own argument parsing, even though most of them have nearly > the same syntax. > > Whaddya say, is ftp(1) due for a revamp? Check to make sure that the NetBSD folks haven't already gone down this path (the last major update was a sync with some of their good work), and then MHO is that you should wield the knife. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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