Hi, > 1) It's about time to make ftp to sites like ftp.mcafee.com. > If other programs can why do we not?
As soon as we (mplayer team) are over the 0.90 release (should happen in a few days) i'll start my work on rewritting ftpfs. The current code is (sorry) a messy hack, with lots of bad assumptions and unhandled errors. It ay work with wu-ftpd, but for example it cannot chdir to homedir on proftpd, and i don't even want to imagine when it meets our hungarian language AIX server... I've already spent lots of time improving ftpfs in 4.1.35 in AMC, and i see the same problems still exists in 4.6.0. So, cound on me for ftpfs. Some more TODO entries: The fishfs is a little buggy, if you start transferring a big file and then aborts with ctrl+c, it gets into unusable state, and thanks to the vfs dir cache you have to quit mc and restart to get it working again... Maybe someone familiar with fishfs code could fix it? Another important issue i found is that patchfs doens't handle delete, so if you enter a 'patch', and edit a 'file' in it, it will append the edited version but don't remove the original part, rendering it unusably broken. Delete/edit support is (imho) required for patchfs to make it useful. Unfortunatelly it's written in perl, so i can't volunteer fixing it, unless i rewrite it in C or bash. The lslR-fs is cool, but it's extremly slow (try to enter a 80mb ls-lR file) and eats extremly high memory (aoround 200mb for that 80mb lslr file). I think we should write 'native' support for it, just like for tar and cpio. It could do an initial pass, searching for directories, and storing the position in the lslR file as 'inode', and when the user enters a directory, then jump to that position and parse that part only. A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team -- Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu "However, many people beg for its inclusion in Debian. Why?" - Gabucino "Because having new software in Debian is good." - Josselin Mouette "Because having good software in Debian is new." - Gabucino _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel