ftp bug report

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:02:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 19 05:31, Thomas Mellman wrote:
>> Corinna  wrote:
>> 
>> >> Did you try to use the mapping feature of nmap?  I transfer from a VMS
>> >
>> >What's nmap?  I never used it.  I don't see that we have a nmap package
>> >in the distro.
>> >
>> >> machine, and I need to nmap to get rid of the version number.  I also
>> >> use the case command to convert from uppercase to lowercase.
>> >
>> >I'd need *specific* instructions to reproduce the crash.  What commands
>> >with which options do I have to use how?  Can I do this at all or do I
>> >need non-Cygwin commands to reproduce it?  Do I have to have a VMS machine?
>> 
>> Okay, like this:
>> 
>> $ ftp somehost
>> Connected to somehost.com.
>> 220 somehost.3 FTP Server (Version 5.0) Ready.
>> Remote system type is VMS.
>> ftp> user mellman
>> 331 Username mellman requires a Password
>> Password: 
>> 230 User logged in.
>> ftp> cd somewhere
>> 250-CWD command successful.
>> 250 New default directory is somewhere
>> ftp> nmap $1;$2 $1
>> ftp> case
>> Case mapping on.
>> ftp> get mspp_i_seq.h
>> 200 PORT command successful.
>> 150 Opening data connection for somewhere:MSPP_I_SEQ.H;1 (x.x.x.x,y)
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>FYI, I can reproduce it now.  I really didn't know about that nmap
>command, I never used it before.
>
>However, it would still be nice if somebody would try to track that
>down, too.  When starting ftp under GDB, it doesn't hang, it just
>doesn't print anything, so you must type in everything blind.

You could start ftp in one console window and attach to it with gdb
in another...

cgf

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