On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Stef Bon wrote:

> the fuse fs does to read the direntries a new call to get the contents of a
> directory, everytime. Now - cause ftp is known for the fact that contents do
> not change much - I'm looking for a way to determine a directory on a server
> has changed. On local filesystems, the attributes of the directory is
> changed when an entry is added or removed. Is there a way to get the
> attributes of a directory with one single call?

Not reliably, no. The MLSD command (rfc3659) is probably the closest you can
get, but I don't think that command can be expected to be present even on 90%
of the world's ftp sites.

> Futher right now I'm using the curl easy interface, I'm curious the multi
> interface offers some extra abilities?

Not in the way of providing more ftp properties etc, but certainly in the way
of providing a different and non-blocking interface to do transfers.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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