Re: libfetch ftp patch for less latency

Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au> writes:
> At first glance, the current behaviour does seem unnecessary and
> Nate's patch seems an "obvious" improvement.  Having a comment near
> _ftp_cwd() explaining the current behaviour and why it isn't possible
> to pass a pathname to CWD would have saved Nate some effort and
> removed the need for this thread.
>
> Sometimes, it is as important to document why an alternative algorithm
> was not chosen as it is to document what the code is doing.

Isn't that why we have CVS logs?

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revision 1.92
date: 2005/08/12 12:48:50;  author: des;  state: Exp;  lines: +152 -29
Change directory one level at a time, and use CDUP to back out.  This is a
work in progress; it partially fixed bin/83278 and is a prerequisite to
fixing bin/83277.

PR:             bin/83277, bin/83278
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DES
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