Re: FTPAPI question

[Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>]

Sender: Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>

Thomas,

> I am not sure whether I correctly understand your question. On my 
> opinion "multiple sessions" does not necessarily mean that these session 
> are managed multi-threaded. But it can mean that you can open multiple 
> sessions at the same time and then "put" and "get" files from here to 
> there. E.g. having multiple session open you can read a directory on one 
> box and then transfer all the files to another box without having to 
> open and close the two sessions again and again.

well, in the above scenario one could simply download all the files from 
the first server, disconnect and upload to the second server. My concern 
has been that if you are moving really large files, one or the other 
server might time out in between, esp. as it is not multi-threaded.

> I think that it is not a good idea to use RPG in a multi-threaded 
> environment. I can not argue for that opinion in details. It is just a 
> feeling from inside myself.

It's just been a thought. ILE RPG can multi-thread pretty well, at least 
according to the docs. Of course, the current FTPAPI has too many global 
variables to be thread-safe. Anyway, I was not too serious about that...

Regards,
Christian
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