Make LIST output compatible with FuseFS

[dplasa]

Fuse FTP-FS (fuse filesystem) -- connection is OK but nothing is visible (neither are directories)

mkdir /tmp/xxx
curlftpfs ftp://ftp:[email protected] /tmp/xxx
cd /tmp/xxx
ls -al # empty result
touch x # freeze

This empty result is probably due to the format of the LIST output -- the way it was implemented is not understood by FuseFS.
Second problem: FuseFS sends "LIST -a", the "-a" gets treated by the server as filename/dirname and it tries to list "cwd/-a" which fails.

Touch freeze... not sure what happens here.

[dplasa]

OK, so I updated the code for the LIST command to behave like vsftp's LIST command output would look like. Now, curlftpfs (and other FuseFS clients) show proper directory contents and file dates.

[dplasa]

However, any file operation still fails. touch'ing, cp'ing... just silently freezes until some timeout. Not fully understood, what is going on here.

When connecting to a vsftpd FTP Server, a touch file becomes a "SITE CHMOD 644 file" command to the server. I've looked at the debug output of my FTP Server - there is just no command being received.

Will investigate further.

[dplasa]

It seems that curlftpfs wants to open a second control connection for file operations like touch, cp, ...
I did not find any command switch to control that behavior and as we support only 1 connection at a time, this does not work out.
Sad to leave it like this but at the time, I don't see how to proceed.
I updated the README accordingly.

[d-a-v]

Thanks for your investigations and fixes !
About curlftpfs I'll try to see why they try to open a second control connection.

[dplasa]

I don't know their code structure and maybe it's a dumb idea... but maybe one could try to add an option to limit the number of concurrent connections. There is a "-s single thread" command line option but that doesn't prevent it from using more than one connection.