Re: (all version, incl. 0.17) this error seems to enjoy meeting me
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net> writes:
Peter> Inserting some debugging point into Cmd.pm shows that there is
Peter> a RETR command, probably failing and closing the filehandle
Peter> because some reason beyond me, and teh next QUIT command goes
Peter> into the closed filehandle, failing. But the program
Peter> continues, trying to issue MDTM on the package, probably using
Peter> the very same closed filehandle, and catches an infinite wait.
Peter> Stopping it only possible by ctrl-c AND kill -9 the background ftp
Peter> session.
I hate this. The API provides little support for more fault
tolerant code. I have seriously begun to question the quality of the
bundled FTP object libraries. Looking at the code reveals some quite,
umm, poor, programming.
I think we should eschew Net::FTP and rewrite the darned thing
to be better fault tolerant. In the meanwhile, I shall try and wrap
any incursion into the underlying libraries in an eval, and see if I
can trap more errors of this kind.
Unfortunately, I shall be leaving for a 2 week trip next week,
so unless someone whants to hack at the ftp method, this shall have
to wait until I get back.
manoj
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