Re: lftp does not wait for "221 Goodbye" message before closing control connection

Here is a patch to make lftp wait for QUIT reply at exit. I think to avoid
lingering one can set use-quit no.

2014-09-16 3:44 GMT+04:00 Stephen Powell <[email protected]>:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:04:36 -0400 (EDT), Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> >
> > As far as I can tell, lftp does not wait for QUIT reply only when it
> > exits.  Is it really necessary to linger at exit to wait for clean
> > connection shutdown?
>
> Well, I don't know if "necessary" is the right word; but it is the
> expected behavior to wait for a 221 reply to the QUIT command before
> closing the control connection.  That's what all other FTP clients do.
> On the other hand, lftp has a long-standing tradition of being as
> asynchronous as possible and as fast as possible, and I respect
> that tradition as well.
>
> I propose a compromise.  Let's introduce a new "set" variable.  Maybe
> we could call it ftp:wait-for-goodbye, or something along those lines.
> It would be a boolean variable.  You could make its default value "no"
> for forward compatibility with the current behavior.  If set to "yes",
> then lftp will wait for a "221 Goodbye." message to be received in
> response to the QUIT command before closing the control connection.
> What do you think?
>
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