On Jun 10, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, James Housley wrote:
>
>> I know from pervious discussions that once libssh2 works in non-
>> blocking mode that ssh.c will need to be converted to run in a
>> state machine to "play nice" with the rest of libcurl. I also
>> remember being told that ftp.c is not the ideal way it should be
>> done, but I don't remember what was the best example of how it
>> should be done.
>
> Actually, ftp.c is a pretty good example (the _really_ bad examples
> are tftp.c, file.c, telnet.c and ldap.c). The bad places in ftp.c
> are hopefully all marked "BLOCKING". It does feature a pretty
> complicated state machine that was implemented and goes a long way
> in attempting to work nicely non-blocking.
>
>> If I am right for the actual transfers Curl_setup_transfer() would
>> be called and then the state machine would run from withing the
>> read and write call backs.
>
> Well, the (protocol-specific) read and write functions I would call
> them! :-) (not callbacks)
>
>> Would the same be done for connect?
>
> For the connect phase, you can view the ftp.c example for how it
> does it. The same function will simply be called repeatedly until
> it sets *done = TRUE.
>
>> Below is a highly edited version of the connect only showing the
>> routines that can block. Do I just do an initial transfer setup
>> with unknown size for connect?
>
> No, the connect phase is only connecting (and authenticating) to
> the host, it does no transfer. The transfer is inited by the DO-
> command. The procedure is like:
>
> 1 connect
> 2 do
> 3 done
> [possibly loop to 2 when another request is done on a persistant
> connection]
> 4 disconnect
>
> Most protocols do nothing special on disconnect (except FTP again).
>

Thanks for all the above. So as long as Curl_ssh_connect returns
CURLE_OK and sets *done = FALSE all is good? Okay.

Jim*

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