Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Mar 2000 16:50:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 5585 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2000 16:50:50 -0000 Received: from houseofdistraction.com (mail@206.63.251.121) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 10 Mar 2000 16:50:50 -0000 Received: from butt [192.168.1.3] by houseofdistraction.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12TSaa-0005jX-00; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:48:36 -0800 Message-Id: <4.1.20000310082254.00ba5850@houseofdistraction.com> X-Sender: jlb@houseofdistraction.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:52:24 -0800 To: submit@bugs.debian.org From: jeff Subject: ftp's /bin/ls allows files to be listed as directories Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Package: wu-ftpd Version: 2.6.0-3 dependencies: libc6 2.1.3-5 libpam0g 0.72-5 netbase 3.17-1 perl-5 5.005.03-5.3 The facility in ftp which interprets 'ls' commands doesn't behave the way it should. For example: ftp> ls /etc/hostname/. 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jan 5 15:35 /etc/hostname 226 Transfer complete. It should have returned something like: ls: /etc/hostname/.: Not a directory OK, so this is a pretty minor bug, but it screws up ange-ftp in emacs.