On 04-Feb-2003 Yar Tikhiy wrote: | 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. |
Appears to work on my end. ;-)
Mike
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