Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

[Mark Lord]

Mark Lord wrote:
> Today I've been using 2.6.25-rc8 with an old embedded build system here
> for my empegs.  One shell script calls out to /usr/bin/ftp to transfer
> an image to a remote system, and then read it back again and compare.
>
> The compare is failing, most (but not all) of the time,
> but only on 2.6.25-rc8, not on 2.6.24.  Verified by switching
> back and forth between kernel versions for a short spell.
>
> The ftp client is netkit-ftp 0.17-16 on Kubuntu feisty.
>
> Switching to ncftpput/ncftpget avoids it on 2.6.25,
> but I wonder where the problem is.
..

Now verified that the data loss occurs in the outbound direction.
The readback data is the same, regardless of which client s/w is used.

So something in 2.6.25 is incompatible with the ftp client binary, or libs,
that are installed here.  Or some other problem.

??
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