Re: EFS 1.6 (dired?) problem with re-starting ftp process
Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox@ccs.neu.edu)
Fri, 8 Apr 1994 10:05:03 -0400
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor]
>>>>> <sperber@provence.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Michael> - I fire up dired on a remote directory
Michael> - I kill the corresponding ftp process buffer
Michael> - I issue a "C" on a file "foobar" from the directory
Michael> - EFS starts a new ftp process (great feature!)
Michael> - ... but then starts a "listing directort /foobar"
That's actually a feature. efs needs to make sure that the file you're
looking for actually exists. Since the ftp protocol doesn't have a stat()
function, the only way to make sure the file exists is to try and get a
directory listing of it.
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