I'm not sure I was even aware of that RFC before now. Are we sure the
IETF still considers it to be a standards track document? I'd also
suggest that the matter be discussed on tech-security -- tech-userlevel
is not the right list...

.pm

Aidan Cully <aidan@kublai.com> writes:

> I plan to commit this next week, if there are no objections.  The patch
> is in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/aidan/ftp-patch.tgz .  Since
> the last time I posted, there was a change that sort-of conflicted with
> my patch (which, I know, is what I get for waiting years to commit
> things), namely enami's change to use either mmap() or read() to read
> a file before sending it...  I admit, I don't fully understand this
> patch (I can see what it does, but not why it does it...  for performance,
> I assume.), so I kind of hacked around it by employing enami's method when
> there's no protection on the file to be transmitted, and my method
> otherwise.  I know this is a kludge, but I figure it's an important
> feature, and it can be cleaned up after the initial commit.
> 
> So play around with it, let me know if I should do something else with
> the patch before committing it.
> 
> --aidan
> 

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