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From: guy@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Unreliable FTP
Message-ID: <4141@sun.uucp>
Date: Sat, 14-Jun-86 16:53:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 14 16:53:42 1986
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> Anyone know how come it is that FTP sometimes doesn't
> do anything when I do a "get file"?  It does the "transfer
> complete" bit, but never transfers anything.  ... It smells like a timing
> problem to me.

Assuming this is the 4.2BSD "ftp", there is a bit of brainrot which could
cause this.  The routine "getreply", after having read a reply code, will
see if more data is available on the control channel.  If so, it will *throw
away* the reply code and read another one.  This tends to confuse the FTP
state machine a bit.  Try getting rid of the "if (expecteof || empty(cin))"
stuff before the reply code is returned.
-- 
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)