On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:39:29 +0100, Jos Backus wrote:
> Scanning the directory for new files, as the aforementioned script does. If
> you have more than one script doing this at the same time, both may conclude
> that a given file is ``available'' and try to act upon it.
Then it's your _script_ that should do careful locking to avoid tripping
up over itself, surely? :-)
> Inevitably, one of those scripts will fail. Hence my solution. But
> maybe I don't quite understand the problem :-)
Let me take a step back. I'm not saying that what you're doing to ftpd
is wrong. I'm saying that it's probably not worthwhile adding this
feature to the stock ftpd when it's such a quirky work-around.
I have several local hacks to ftpd which I think are very useful, but I
don't think they should be added to FreeBSD's ftpd because they're not
general solutions to wide-spread problems.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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