Hi!

> > I have a problem with the ftpfs, or rather with the way midnight
> > commander handles ftp connections. The problem is the following.
> 
> Please report the version of Midnight Commander next time.  It's very
> annoying to see people assuming that all versions of MC have exactly the
> same bugs, so that the version doesn't matter.  Be assured that the bugs
> get fixed and the version does matter.
> 
> I could reproduce your problem with the CVS version of MC.  Indeed, using
> the "-l" option I could see that every time when an FTP directory is read
> MC reads the directory two levels above unless it's already cached.
> 
> This appears to be a bug in ftpfs.

It may be "feature".

Okay, haven't look at code, but assume you are in /foo/bar/baz. Now,
you stat(".."). To find size of /foo/bar (that's what .. is, right?)
you list /foo. Logical, eh?
                                                                Pavel

> > since I never needed the listing for .../users/d/. Any way to
> > disable this request for the listing of the directory two levels
> > up? Any recommendations on what I can do?
> 
> Fix the bug or wait until somebody else does it.

This might not be too easy to fix...
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