Re: [bug-inetutils] Requesting staus of submitted bug report

[Mats Erik Andersson]

fredag den 30 augusti 2013 klockan 09:59 skrev Glenn Golden detta:
> This is funny.  I just tried it on two more of my machines, and it fails every
> time, using that "$get_files" macro.  Kernel versions of these systems:
> 
>     Linux huh 3.10.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT
>     Linux nu 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT
> 
> The target machine was ftp.archlinux.org, and the .netrc file was the same as
> posted (attached inline below, just for completeness).
> 
> One question before I go inserting printfs: Did you try increasing the number
> of "get"s in the "get_files" macro to more than four?  I had noticed earlier
> that sometimes it required more than four fetches in order to fail.  Four just
> happened to have been the sweet spot. 

Yes, two, four, and six. Now also eight!

> If you still can't reproduce it,  let me know and I'll put on my pith helmet
> and start on a printf safari.

The following variant on "~/.netrc" was used on Arch Linux
with inetutils-1.9.1-4. As you see it contains eight rounds
of file fetching. I had to use passive mode, due to my place
in the world, but executing

  ftp> $lek zziplib-0.13.62-1.src.tar.gz

always succeeded in all combinations with "debug" and "hash".
vsftpd was throtteling my connection with 50 kbits/sec.

The only error I could achieve was to issue the same
command so late that the connection had timed out already,
which provoked a segmentation fault, but only after
after the message "Passive mode refused.\nNot connected.".
Thus your core dump should be unrelated.

Regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson

(Side note: inetutils-telnetd is severely misbehaving on
Arch Linux, but not on Debian, BSD or Solaris. Is this
known to your collegues?)

============================ begin inline attachment =========================
machine ftp.archlinux.org
login ftp
password any
macdef init
binary
hash
cd /sources/packages


macdef lek
cd /sources/packages
get $1
get $1
get $1
get $1
get $1
get $1
get $1
get $1

============================  end inline attachment===========================