Ftp-WG: mdtm and mlsd commands

    Date:        Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:30:08 
    From:        "Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | Is this list active?

Not very.

  | 2) Could someone explain to me the status of the mdtm command?

Perhaps.... Its definition should appear in an RFC sometime relatively
soon, we hope.

  | I've found both clients and servers which allow mdtm to be used to set the
  | modify-fact of files on servers, but I don't see that documented in any
  | RFC or proposal.

Anything that does that is broken, it is a query command only.  There
are no standardised "set attributes" command, for any attributes I'm
aware of (possibly excluding the name...)

  | Is this use of mdtm in any standard or in any proposal for standard?

No.

  | And if not, is there any standardized method for setting a
  | file's modify-fact?

Not that I know of.

  | 2) What is the status of the command "mlsd directory" in terms of a
  | standard or a track towards it?

It is approved as a proposed standard.   The RFC should appear soon
(for all WG members, the delay is while we're trying to work out the
best way of handling the over-long example lines in the draft - it is
likely now that the outcome of this will be the text format rfc missing
some of the examples, and a postscript format version with everything
included - not ideal, but anything else that remains correct, and meets
the rfc editor restrictions is going to take too long to accomplish).

kre