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Re: LFTP issue
On Jun 14 14:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 14 07:39, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> > > Thanks for the strace. ?This + our irc chat allowed me to duplicate the
> > > problem. ?It should be fixed in the next snapshot which is building now.
> >
> > Thank you! Using the "cygwin1-20090614.dll.bz2" snapshot, I don't see
> > the hang that I was seeing before. However, when doing a "ls | grep
> > <string>" or "ls | less" on the large directory (2000 items), I now
> > see the results duplicated 530 times.
>
> I can reproduce this if the remote dir is big enough, just the numbers
> are different. In one dir with < 500 files it works fine, in another
> dir with > 3000 files I get between 70 and 120 repetitions.
>
> And I have another weird effect:
>
> $ lftp server
> lftp server:>cd large-dir
> cd ok, cwd=/large-dir
> lftp server:/large-dir>ls | less
> ls: less: Permission denied
> lftp server:/large-dir>ls | less
> ls: less: Permission denied
> lftp server:/large-dir>ls | less
> ls: less: Permission denied
> lftp server:/large-dir>ls | less
> ls: less: Permission denied
> lftp server:/large-dir>ls | less
> [...works...]
>
> I can reproduce this with a very high probability. 4 or 5 or 10 times
> in a row it fails. Then, as soon as the first `ls | less' call
> succeeds, all subsequent calls succeed as well. Calling just `ls' once,
> helps, too.
>
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce it when running under strace. In that
> case `ls | less' already succeeds the first time, every time I try it :(
[...] and afterwards, all the `less' processes from the failed
attempts are still in memory, even after exiting from lftp.
Corinna
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