Unreliable FTP

[guy at sun.UUCP]

> Anyone know how come it is that FTP sometimes doesn't
> do anything when I do a "get file"?  It does the "transfer
> complete" bit, but never transfers anything.  ... It smells like a timing
> problem to me.

Assuming this is the 4.2BSD "ftp", there is a bit of brainrot which could
cause this.  The routine "getreply", after having read a reply code, will
see if more data is available on the control channel.  If so, it will *throw
away* the reply code and read another one.  This tends to confuse the FTP
state machine a bit.  Try getting rid of the "if (expecteof || empty(cin))"
stuff before the reply code is returned.
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	Guy Harris
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