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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:52:25 +0300
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
Cc:        David Rhodus <david@uky.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftpd mkdir problems
Message-ID:  <20030204175224.GB34907@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030204030531.mheffner@vt.edu>
References:  <B4E1A495-352E-11D7-820C-0050E460845F@uky.edu> <XFMail.20030204030531.mheffner@vt.edu>

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:05:31AM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote:
> 
> On 31-Jan-2003 David Rhodus wrote:
> | Using the default ftpd that comes with FreeBSD, in the mkdir command, 
> | why doesn't it expand '~', the cd and rmdir commands seem to. Passing 
> | over the code it just calls the c function with should expand it.
> 
> No, the system calls don't expand a tilde. The expansion is done in
> ftpcmd.y under the 'pathname' directive using glob(3), but glob(3) won't
> expand the tilde when the directory doesn't exist. Lukemftpd works around
> this by implementing its own '~' expansion code. Yar has been working on
> ftpd recently, you might want to ask him if he has any plans to address
> this.

I've got inspiration to fix this bug in CURRENT today :-)
Would everyone concerned mind testing my change to ftpd(8) and
giving me your feedback?
Thanks.

> | ftp> cd ~will
> | 250 CWD command successful.
> | ftp> mkdir ~will/test
> | 550 ~will/test: No such file or directory.
> | ftp> mkdir test
> | 257 "test" directory created.
> | ftp> rmdir ~will/test
> | 250 RMD command successful.
> | ftp>

-- 
Yar

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