From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753460AbYDINie (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756077AbYDINh7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:37:59 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1747 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754102AbYDINh6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:37:58 -0400 Message-ID: <47FCC6B5.70804@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:37:57 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors References: <47FC4C87.1020705@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <47FC4C87.1020705@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. ??