Re: Theads and FTP
On 12/4/2011 4:14 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
On 12/3/11 8:31 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
I have watched FTP voyager work. It seems to have at least two threads
simultaneously uploading downloading. You might think what's the
point. You can be transferring while you are waiting for the server
to open or close a file and send back confirmation.
I was wondering if this is done by logging on twice and having two
completely independent sessions, or if FTP itself has some multithread
ability.
Why not look up the RFC on the FTP protocol?
I seem to recall that it inherently uses two sockets, one for the
commands and one for transfers. I don't know if the command stream is
allowed (or expected) to be active during a transfer, I haven't read the
spec myself in quite a while.
Also, you don't necessarily need multiple threads to handle multiple
connections. In posix c "select()" is use to manage multiple connections.
I believe it is possible to write a FTP client single threaded even
without select.
Arne
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