FTPFS: Problem with Gene6 FTP Server: Parent directories are listed as well

[hoffleit]

When working with FTPFS against a Gene6 FTP Server v3.8.0 (Build 34), I ran into the situation that the listings of listdir() and listdirinfo() included the parent directory and the parents parent directory:

>>> ftp = FTPFS(host = gene6ftp)
>>> ftp.listdir()
[u'dir1', u'dir2', u'/', u'dir3']
>>> ftp.listdir('dir1')
[u'dir11', u'/dir1', u'/']
>>> ftp.listdir('dir1/dir11)
[u'dir111', u'dir112, u'/dir1/dir11', u'/dir1', u'dir113', u'dir114', u'dir115']
>>> ftp.listdir('dir1/dir11/dir114)
[u'file1141', u'file1142', u'/dir1/dir11', u'file1143', u'/dir1/dir11/dir114', u'file1144']

The directory tree looked like this:

/dir1 /dir1/dir11/dir111 /dir1/dir11/dir112 /dir1/dir11/dir113 /dir1/dir11/dir114 /dir1/dir11/dir114/file1141 /dir1/dir11/dir114/file1142 /dir1/dir11/dir114/file1143 /dir1/dir11/dir114/file1144 /dir1/dir11/dir115 /dir2 /dir3

I came up with the following modification for ftpfs, which worked for me:

--- fs/ftpfs.py.ORIG    2016-03-24 16:56:42.618053706 +0100
+++fs/ftpfs.py  2016-03-24 16:57:22.551270915 +0100
@@ -553,8 +553,10 @@
                 elif factname == 'type':
                     if factvalue.lower() == 'file':
                         result.try_retr = True
-                    elif factvalue.lower() in ['dir', 'cdir', 'pdir']:
+                    elif factvalue.lower() == 'dir':
                         result.try_cwd = True
+                    elif factvalue.lower() in ['cdir', 'pdir']:
+                        return None
                     else:
                         # dunno if it's file or directory
                         result.try_retr = True

I.e. I dropped the lines with cdir and pdir, since they seemed to make no sense for this directory listing.

Here is an example for a listing from this Gene6 FTP server:

type=dir;modify=20160217175246; /dir1/dir11
type=cdir;modify=20160217175246; /dir1/dir11
type=pdir;modify=20160217175208; ..
type=pdir;modify=20160217175208; /dir1
type=dir;modify=20160217175236; dir111
type=dir;modify=20160324152742; dir112
type=dir;modify=20160324152803; dir113
type=dir;modify=20160217175219; dir114
type=dir;modify=20160217175216; dir115