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The wait was never in the loop. Measured on main, three runs of three against the FTPS lab: a download of a file the server refuses hangs with the control socket holding an unread reply and the data socket showing bytes_sent 388, bytes_received 0. 388 out and none back is a TLS ClientHello nobody answered, so the wait is inside the data connection's handshake, which happens BEFORE the first read. read_watching_control guards the read loop, and the loop is never reached. #660 gave nine sites a guarded loop; this gives them a guarded opening, which is where the defect lives.

Two unbounded awaits, and both are covered. In the crate's data_command, active mode is bounded by active_timeout, but the passive connect (passive_stream_builder) and the TLS upgrade (tls_ctx.connect) are not. Only the second was measured. The first is the one that matters on a plaintext session, where there is no handshake to hang in, and no measurement in this campaign has ever exercised the plaintext path: it is not that there are no defects there, it is that nobody has looked. Bounding only the measured one would have closed the case we had seen and left the case we had not.

open_with_cap bounds and does nothing else, and that is a correction. The first version classified the failure too. Writing the SECOND caller showed why that was wrong: STOR maps with map_store_error and the others with classify_data_failure, so a helper that classified would have changed that site's behaviour silently. It is the second consumer that reveals an abstraction doing one thing too many; the first cannot, because whatever the helper does is what that caller wanted.

What happens when the cap expires, and why the session usually survives. The command is already on the wire and its reply unread: pasv() reads its own 227, but perform(cmd) reads nothing. So after_timed_out_open looks before it concludes. The Recv-Q of 55 during the measured hang decomposes exactly as a TLS 1.2 AES-GCM record carrying 550 Failed to open file.\r\n: 5 header + 8 nonce + 26 payload + 16 tag. Consistent, not proof, but it says the likely case is that the server refused long ago, which is precisely why it never serviced the data port. So the cap does not produce a quick failure; it produces the server's own reason, which was there to be read.

Four conditions, and a named silence. The session is kept only when the reply is parsed WHOLE, is FINAL, belongs HERE, and does not announce the channel closing. That last one is 421, "service not available, closing control connection": a 4xx, final, legitimately present, and kept by every earlier version of this condition, while the server was saying the channel was going away.

This arm has now been narrowed four times, and the sequence is the useful part. Keeping on any error was right about "something failed" and silent on whether a whole reply arrived. Keeping on the error VARIANT was right about that and silent on finality. Keeping on the STATUS CLASS was right about finality and silent on the connection surviving. Each discriminant was correct for the property it was chosen for and mute on the next, which is why it looked total every time: totality is answered with respect to one property at a time.

So the question that matters for the fifth round is not "does this cover every case" but "which property is this discriminant silent about". This one is silent about WHOSE reply it is: FTP carries no request identifier, so a reply queued here could belong to an earlier command answered late, and consuming it as ours would leave our own still owed. Nothing in reach distinguishes them, so it is named in the code rather than claimed closed.

And the session is discarded whenever it cannot be handed on, which is what makes the cap safe:

  • a complete reply was parsed: it was consumed whole, the control channel is aligned again, the session survives;
  • the collection produced nothing readable: read_response_in is not cancellation-safe and may have been dropped mid-line, so the session goes;
  • nothing was queued at all: the reply is still owed, and a session one answer behind hands the next question somebody else's answer. The session goes.

The second of those is a CATCH-ALL, not a third named case, and that is deliberate. BadResponse, a connection error, and any variant a later version of the crate might add do not share a meaning; they share the absence of one, since none of them establishes that the control channel is aligned. So the default discards, because the safe side is the one that does not assume. It is the same asymmetry as the write-side record types with the sign reversed: there the safe default was to keep writing, here it is to throw the session away, and in both the safe default is the branch that claims to know least.

Listings get a TOTAL cap, not an inactivity one. A transfer wants inactivity, because a large file legitimately takes hours and a total cap would kill it. A listing has an intrinsic size, so an inactivity bound would never fire against a server that dribbles a row at a time. The expiry is returned as an FtpError so the three listing sites treat it exactly as they already treat a refusal: MLSD marks itself broken and falls through to LIST, which has its own cap.

The two numbers, with what they rest on. OPEN_BUDGET is 30s, chosen to sit far from both measured edges: a healthy open against the lab completes in 0.116s and the hang was still unresolved at 120s, which was the probe's cap rather than a limit of the wait. LIST_BUDGET is 300s and is reasoned, not measured: it is a liveness limit, not a performance one, and it has NOT been checked against a pathological listing such as a hundred thousand entries over a slow link. Raising it is safe; lowering it is not. If a truncated listing is ever reported, this is the first place to look, not the network. It deliberately does not copy the twin's list_timeout of 30s in src/ftp.rs, which is the number we suspect may already be truncating legitimate listings there: copying it would have inherited the answer without asking the question.

This bounds ONE opening, and a transfer makes as many as the caller asks for. Measured against a permanent stall (23), counting openings while varying --retries: 0 gives 2, 1 gives 2, 2 gives 4, 3 gives 6, 5 gives 10. So the count is 2 x max(1, retries): two openings per attempt, times the attempts the caller chose. The 6 first observed was simply 2 x 3, the default, and quoting it as a constant would have made a caller's setting look like a property of the client.

The user-visible worst case is therefore 2 x retries x OPEN_BUDGET: about 180s at the default, 600s with --retries 10. That multiplier is literally a knob the user turns, which settles where the number belongs: the cap is the only one of the two that does not depend on the caller, so lowering it to make the total tolerable would be answering a retry question with a transport constant, at the wrong layer. It is stated because whoever tunes OPEN_BUDGET is not setting one sixth of the worst case, they are setting a fraction that is not fixed, and a budget sized once against a user's patience does not stay sized. Either way it is bounded now, and it was not before: the same download did not finish at all.

Divergence on the four sites #660 called almost-no-op. download_to_bytes, resume_download, read_range and download_single gain the opening cap here. Anyone who read #660 has "those four are unchanged" in mind, and nobody re-reads a closed pull request, so it is stated rather than left to be deduced. The five that had nothing gain it too, and ftp_download_one_range, which had a cancel token and no deadline at all, gains its first bound.

Out of scope, deliberately. Driving the LIST loop ourselves and giving STOR its own surveillance are new behaviour with no inherited tests, and they answer a different question: this pull request asks "does the opening have a limit?", which is mechanical and uniform across nine sites, while that one asks "is the new behaviour right?". They are separated for the same reason #660 was separated from this.

Gate. cargo fmt; clippy --all-features --tests clean; 36 providers::ftp tests pass. The live proof needs the stalling fixture, which is #662 and not yet on main; the lane that runs it comes with the test, and no code here depends on it.

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    • FTP sessions are now safely closed when recovery is not possible, reducing hangs and inconsistent connection states.
    • Prevented delayed server responses from interfering with subsequent FTP commands.
    • Improved recovery from failed data-channel connections.

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FTP listings now have a 300-second budget. FTP data-channel openings now have a 30-second budget. Timed-out listings disable MLSD and discard the session. Timed-out openings classify queued 4xx/5xx replies, except 421, and discard unsafe or unclassifiable sessions.

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Timeout budgets and recovery helpers
src-tauri/src/providers/ftp.rs
Adds 30-second data-channel and 300-second listing budgets. Adds helpers that enforce timeouts and classify queued control-channel replies after data-channel open timeouts.
Bounded directory listings
src-tauri/src/providers/ftp.rs, .github/workflows/ftp-mlsd.yml
Applies bounded timeouts to MLSD and LIST operations. MLSD timeouts disable MLSD at provider scope and discard the session. The workflow runs the live MLSD timeout regression test against a hanging fixture.
Bounded transfer data-channel opens
src-tauri/src/providers/ftp.rs
Applies timeout and recovery handling to downloads, resumed downloads, range reads, single-stream downloads, uploads, and pooled range downloads.

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The PR bounds data-channel and listing waits, but a timeout path can retain a control session without proving that the consumed reply belongs to the timed-out command or that the channel is fully aligned. A later command may receive stale FTP state and fail incorrectly within that session, so this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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  participant TransferOperation
  participant open_with_cap
  participant after_timed_out_open
  participant FTPControlChannel
  TransferOperation->>open_with_cap: Open RETR or STOR data channel
  open_with_cap-->>TransferOperation: Return data channel or 30-second timeout
  TransferOperation->>after_timed_out_open: Handle timeout
  after_timed_out_open->>FTPControlChannel: Inspect queued server reply
  FTPControlChannel-->>after_timed_out_open: Return and classify reply
  after_timed_out_open-->>TransferOperation: Preserve or discard session and return result
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Requesting a look at 6209c29b specifically. Your two earlier reviews on this branch each found a real defect in the same match arm, and this head is its fourth revision, so it is worth the pass rather than my reading alone.

For context on what changed since 0abc35f0: 421 is excluded from the retained-session branch, because it is a 4xx and also means the server is closing the control connection, so keeping the session hands on one the server has just said it is ending. The session is now discarded for it.

The sequence is what makes this arm worth a fourth look. Keeping on any error was wrong because a malformed reply can mean half a line consumed. Keeping on the variant was wrong because a queued 1xx parses the same way and its completion then answers the next command. Keeping on the status class was wrong because of 421. Each discriminator was correct about the property it was chosen for and silent about the next one down, which is why every version looked total.

One limitation is named in the comment rather than closed: the current test is mute on whose reply it is. FTP carries no request identifier, so a reply queued at that moment could belong to an earlier command whose response arrived late, and nothing available distinguishes them.

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@axpnet I found no new functional defect in 6209c29b.

The 421 exclusion is correct. suppaftp v10.0.0 maps reply code 421 to Status::NotAvailable. after_timed_out_open therefore discards the session for this reply.

The retained-session branch now has the required properties:

  • read_response_in consumes a complete single-line or multiline response before it returns FtpError::UnexpectedResponse.
  • Only final 4xx and 5xx replies can retain the session.
  • 421 cannot retain the session.
  • Parse errors, partial responses, timeouts, non-final replies, and unexpected positive replies discard the session.

The reply-ownership limitation remains. FTP provides no command identifier. A late reply from an earlier command cannot be distinguished from the timed-out command reply. The code documents this limitation and does not claim to solve it.

One non-blocking coverage gap remains. There is no direct regression test for the 421 retention predicate. A focused test would protect this exact condition, given the revision history.

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Reviewing this branch for the property e4 found in after_timed_out_open, I checked whether the sibling cap got the same treatment. It did not, and the reconnect that looks like it covers the gap does not fire.

list_with_cap hands back a desynchronised session, and every caller keeps using it.

On expiry the helper returns an error and nothing discards the stream. The dropped future was inside read_response_in, which this file's own comments state is not cancellation-safe ("dropping it mid-line leaves the control channel misaligned"), and the MLSD/LIST reply is still owed. All three call sites then reuse that session:

  • mlsd() at :443 sets mlsd_broken = true and falls through to LIST on the same session, which is reuse by design;
  • the -a path at :480 calls restore_cwd on the same stream before reporting, so the late listing reply is read as the CWD's;
  • :505 maps to ServerError and the session stays.

The reconnect guard does not catch it, and the reason is the interesting part. The fall-through is guarded by is_stale_data_connection_error, which dispatches on message SUBSTRINGS: data connection is already open, 425 + data connection, invalid syntax, invalid response, connection reset, broken pipe. The cap's error renders as Connection error: no listing within 300s (suppaftp types.rs:22, #[error("Connection error: {0}")]). It matches none of them, so reconnect_after_data_error is never reached.

That is a guard that dispatches on text failing to cover an error introduced afterwards, because the new error's wording was never added to it. Nothing at the cap's own call site shows this, which is why it survived four revisions of the neighbouring arm.

Severity, measured rather than argued. A session one reply behind does not resynchronise: the shift moves forward. Independently measured on this campaign, a server sending two replies in one write makes the NEXT command read the previous one's answer, and where that answer is positive the command reports success it never had, silently. Here the owed reply is a listing completion, so the following LIST or CWD can read a 226/250 as its own.

Suggested shape, not a patch. Discard the session when the cap expires, exactly as after_timed_out_open already does when nothing is queued, and for the reason its own doc gives: "a session one answer behind hands the next question somebody else's answer." The cost is one reconnect on a path that has already spent 300 seconds. list_with_cap is a free function over a future, so the discard belongs either at the three call sites or in a variant taking &mut self; that is the author's call.

Widening is_stale_data_connection_error would also silence it, and it is the worse of the two: it keeps the dispatch-on-text mechanism that produced the gap.

This is not an objection to the cap. Before it, the wait was unbounded, which is worse than a desynchronised session. It is the second half of the same fix.

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Discard the FTP session when a listing timeout occurs. In suppaftp 10.0.0, list and mlsd clear data_connection_open and consume the final reply only in finalize_retr_stream. If list_with_cap times out after the command starts, dropping the future skips finalization, so the fallback or next command can reuse a session with a pending reply and an open-data flag. Discard self.stream before fallback or later reuse.

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- Around line 2521-2523: Update the FTP data-open error handling around
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Reviewed f27c056c. The shape is better than what I asked for: returning Ok(None) puts the expiry in the TYPE, so the three sites cannot walk past it and the compiler enforces what a text match could not. It also makes list_with_cap symmetric with open_with_cap, which is what the review question should have produced in the first place. The -a site handles the expiry before restore_cwd, which is the ordering that matters, and is_stale_data_connection_error is left alone with the reason written beside it.

One thing is lost on the way out, and it is state rather than session.

The MLSD site now returns at Ok(None) BEFORE the arm that runs self.mlsd_broken = true; self.mlsd_supported = false;. Discarding the session is right, and falling through to LIST on that same session would be the defect. But mlsd_broken is provider state, not session state: it is a field (ftp.rs:65), and the connect path reads it at ftp.rs:1121 as self.mlsd_supported = server_supports_mlsd && !self.mlsd_broken, so it survives a re-dial and suppresses MLSD on the next attempt.

Skipping it means a server whose MLSD hangs is never learned about. Every listing spends the full 300s budget, fails, discards the session, and the next call tries MLSD again. The fallback that exists precisely for this server never engages. Before this branch such a server hung once and for ever, so this is still an improvement, but it leaves the provider permanently slow instead of permanently stuck, and the difference from "fixed" is one assignment.

Suggested: set mlsd_broken (and mlsd_supported) on the expiry path before returning, so the session is discarded AND the next attempt goes straight to LIST.

Worth naming the shape, because it is the same one twice in this file: an early return that is correct about the resource and silently skips the bookkeeping the ordinary error path performs. The first instance was the timeout error that did not match the reconnect list; this one is the timeout return that does not reach the flag. Both are paths added later beside an existing one, and both inherit none of what the existing one does.

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Measured on `main`, three runs of three: a download of a file the server refuses hangs with the control socket holding an unread reply and the data socket showing 388 bytes sent and none received. That is a TLS ClientHello nobody answered, so the wait is inside the data connection's handshake, which happens before the first read. `read_watching_control` guards the read loop and the loop is never reached.

Two awaits in the crate's `data_command` are unbounded and both are covered here: the passive connect, which is the only one of the two on a plaintext session and which no measurement in this campaign has ever exercised, and the TLS upgrade, which is the one measured.

`open_with_cap` bounds and does nothing else. An earlier version classified the failure too, and writing the second caller showed why that was wrong: `STOR` maps with `map_store_error` and the others with `classify_data_failure`, so a helper that classified would have changed one site's behaviour in silence. It is the second consumer that reveals an abstraction doing one thing too many; the first cannot, because whatever it does is what that caller wanted.

On expiry the command is already on the wire with its reply unread, so `after_timed_out_open` looks before it concludes. If something is queued it collects it, and the likely case is a refusal that arrived long ago, which is why the server never serviced the data port: the cap then produces the server's own reason instead of a timeout that says nothing. The session survives only when a complete reply was parsed; when the collection produced nothing readable, or nothing was queued at all, the session is discarded, because the reply is still owed and a session one answer behind hands the next question somebody else's answer.

Listings get a TOTAL cap rather than an inactivity one, and that asymmetry is deliberate: a transfer wants inactivity because a large file legitimately takes hours, while a listing has an intrinsic size and an inactivity bound would never fire against a server that dribbles a row at a time.

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Review asked where the other `FtpError` variants fall. They fall in the catch-all and the session is discarded, which was already true; the comment beside it was not. It said anything other than a parsed reply "means the collection produced no complete reply", and that is one variant's meaning, not the branch's. A connection error means something else, and a variant added by a later version of the crate means something nobody here has considered.

What those cases share is not a meaning but the absence of one: none of them establishes that the control channel is aligned. So the default discards because the safe side is the one that does not assume, and a comment that named a single cause invited the next reader to add a fourth arm without asking where it used to fall.

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…parsed

Review found the hole one level below the last fix. `read_queued_refusal` waits for a `226`, so a `125` or a `150` already queued comes back as `UnexpectedResponse` too, and the arm that keeps the session took it as proof the channel was aligned. It is not: a preliminary reply is followed by a completion, so consuming the first and keeping the session leaves the second in the pipe for the next command to read as its own answer. That is the phantom-files class, entering through the branch that exists to stop it.

The condition is not "a whole reply was parsed" but "a whole reply was parsed AND it is final AND it belongs here". `4xx` and `5xx` are the only replies that satisfy all three: after one of those nothing more is owed for that command. A `1xx` is preliminary, a `3xx` is intermediate, and an unexpected `2xx` in this position is odd enough that dialling again beats guessing.

This is the third narrowing of the same arm, and each time the discriminant sat one level too high: first any error at all, which `BadResponse` breaks because it can be half a line; then the error VARIANT, which this breaks because `UnexpectedResponse` contains replies that are not final; now the status class inside the variant. Each version looked total, and each time the level below held a case that did not belong.

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`421` is a `4xx`, it is final, and it belongs where it was found, so every earlier version of this condition kept the session. But it reads "service not available, closing control connection": the server is saying the channel is going away, and the next command would take a session already closed. It is the only status in the range that carries that meaning, since `426` closes the data connection and `221` is a `2xx`.

This is the fourth narrowing of one arm, and the sequence says something the first three did not. Keeping on any error was right about "something failed" and silent on whether a whole reply arrived. Keeping on the VARIANT was right about that and silent on finality. Keeping on the STATUS CLASS was right about finality and silent on the connection surviving. Each discriminant was correct for the property it was chosen for and mute on the next, which is why it looked total every time: totality is answered with respect to one property at a time.

So the useful question for the fifth round is not "does this cover every case" but "which property is this discriminant silent about". This one is silent about WHOSE reply it is: FTP carries no request identifier, so a reply queued here could belong to an earlier command answered late, and consuming it as ours would leave our own still owed. Nothing in reach distinguishes them, so the comment names it instead of claiming the condition is closed.

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…es not work

The comment said "nothing in reach distinguishes them", which reads as covering the whole residue and covers only the property it had named. There is a second one, mute for a different reason: whether ANOTHER reply follows the one just read. `read_response_in` consumes exactly one, and a server that refuses and then hangs up sends `550` and then `421`, in that order, because the refusal answers the command and the goodbye comes after. Reading the `550`, this arm keeps the session with the `421` still queued.

It is named rather than fixed because the fix that suggests itself does not work. A second peek reads `get_ref()`, which is the bare socket UNDER the `BufReader`: when both replies arrive in one segment, the `421` is already buffered and the socket shows nothing, so the peek would report "aligned" in exactly the case it exists to catch. Worse, a fixture sending the two in separate writes leaves them on the socket and makes such a check pass, so the test would be green because of segmentation nobody controls.

The cost is bounded, which is what makes naming it acceptable instead of blocking: `421` is never among any command's expected codes, so a queued one reaches the next command as `UnexpectedResponse`. It surfaces as an error, not as data, and is therefore not the phantom-files class.

The two silences have different causes, and saying so is the point: the first because the protocol carries no identifier, the second because the place we can look from sits below the buffer that holds the answer.

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…it said it was

Measured by a colleague with a fake server answering `RETR` with `550` and `421` in one write: the client reads the `550`, nothing is left on the socket, and the next command, a `PWD`, receives "421 Service not available" as its own reply. An operation fails citing an answer caused by the command before it. That is the phantom-files class, not a clean failure.

The claim it replaces checked the VALUE, that a `421` can never be an expected code so it must surface as an error rather than as data, and never checked the ATTRIBUTION, which command the failure is charged to. Both halves are true and only the second one mattered. It is the same mistake in prose that this code exists to prevent on the wire.

The defect is tracked separately rather than patched here: the fix is not a comment, and it does not belong in a change about bounding the open.

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The cap on a listing returned an error and nobody dropped the stream, so all three callers went on using a session whose reply was still owed. The dropped future was inside `read_response_in`, which this file's own comments call not cancellation-safe. `MLSD` falls through to `LIST` on that session by design; the `-a` path calls `restore_cwd` on it, so the late listing reply is read as the answer to the `CWD`; the bare `LIST` maps to a `ServerError` and keeps it.

Measured on the same shape by a colleague: after an abandoned `MLSD`, a `PWD` receives `425 Cannot open data connection` and the `257` it was owed arrives one place later. From there every reply belongs to the question before it.

The reconnect that looks like it covers this never fires. `is_stale_data_connection_error` matches on substrings of the message and none of its six covers a timeout phrased here, which is why four reviews of the neighbouring arm did not see it: from the site of the cap it is invisible. Widening that list was the available shortcut and is the wrong one, since it would silence the symptom and keep the mechanism that produced the hole.

So the expiry is now distinguishable at the call site, `Ok(None)` rather than an error indistinguishable from the server's own, and each of the three takes the session. The `-a` path handles it before `restore_cwd` runs, because restoring the directory on that stream is the precise defect. The cost is a re-dial on a path that has already spent the whole budget.

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The early return on the listing cap skipped `mlsd_broken`, and that flag is provider state rather than session state: `connect` re-reads it as `mlsd_supported = server_supports_mlsd && !mlsd_broken`, so it survives the reconnect and is what stops the next attempt from paying the whole budget again. Without it a server that advertises MLSD and never answers it is never learned: every listing spends the full cap, fails, discards the session, and the next call tries MLSD again. The fallback that exists for precisely that server never comes into play.

That leaves the provider permanently SLOW instead of permanently STUCK, which is an improvement over an unbounded wait and is not what the flag is for. The ordinary failure path a few lines below sets it for the same reason, and a timeout is the same conclusion reached differently: the server accepted MLSD and did not answer it.

The shape is worth naming because it is the second instance in this file: a return added beside an existing error path, correct about the RESOURCE and silently skipping the accounting the existing path performs. The first was the cap's error not matching the reconnect guard's substring list; this is the cap's return not reaching the flag. Both are new routes placed next to an old one, and neither inherits what the old one does.

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The ordinary failure path logs "Disabling MLSD fallback" before setting the flag. The timeout path set the same flag and said nothing, so a debug log showed MLSD being disabled when it errors and showed nothing when it expires, while the effect on the provider is identical. That is the one moment somebody would go looking for why a server stopped using MLSD.

The new line is deliberately not a copy of the old one. Two identical messages would produce a log that cannot tell a server which REFUSES from one which goes SILENT, and separating those two is most of what this line of work has been about.

Third instance of one shape, and this one turned up inside the remedy for the second: a path added beside an existing one, correct about what it handles and silent about what the old one does as well. That it reappears inside its own fix is the argument for treating it as a class rather than as three defects.

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…herwise

The existing line read "Disabling MLSD fallback for this session". The flag it announces is `mlsd_broken`, which is provider state: `connect` re-reads it as `mlsd_supported = server_supports_mlsd && !mlsd_broken`, so it survives the reconnect on purpose. "For this session" was false before this branch existed.

It matters because of what it sends someone to do. An operator reads it, reconnects, finds MLSD still disabled, and concludes the flag stayed stuck by mistake: the log sends them looking for a bug that is not there, in exactly the situation where they went to the log to find out why a server stopped using MLSD.

Found by writing the sibling line rather than by re-reading this one. The two now sit next to each other describing the same flag, and one said it lasted for a session while the other said it lasted for the provider; putting them side by side is what showed which was wrong. The diff of the previous commit could not have shown it, because it contains the line added and not the line beside it.

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A regression for the session surviving a listing that timed out, with the lane that runs it, because a test nobody executes is a defence in name only.

It asserts ATTRIBUTION and nothing else. Not the duration: a released client re-dials, so elapsed time is multiplied by the retry count and says nothing. Not that the listing failed: it fails either way. Without the fix the session survives with the listing's reply still owed and the next command collects it, measured as a `PWD` receiving "425 Cannot open data connection." with the `257` it was owed arriving one place later. With the fix that `PWD` can only report `NotConnected`. Both worlds produce an error, so the test discriminates on WHICH one, and says so in the failure message.

The probe is a `PWD` rather than a `LIST` on purpose: an empty listing and a misattributed one look alike, so that assertion could not tell them apart, while `PWD` has one known right answer.

The fixture hangs for 420s because `LIST_BUDGET` is 300s and is not injectable, so the wait is real and is declared in the test rather than discovered in CI. At the fixture's earlier default of 90s it gave up first, and a test that believed it was measuring the cap measured the fixture and passed. If this is ever wanted faster the way is to make the budget injectable, never to shorten it: a production constant lowered for a test's convenience turns the measured thing into one that resembles it.

The lane checks that EXACTLY one test ran. It selects by name with `--lib`, the shape that prints "test result: ok" and exits 0 when the filter matches nothing. Exactly one rather than at least one because this step promises to run one named test, so a second arriving here changes what the job does and should be said out loud; the aerorsync lane uses `-lt` and is right to, since it collects a module that may grow. Validated under `bash -e`, the shell GitHub actually uses, against one, zero, two, a log with no result line, and a log never written.

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axpnet force-pushed the feat/ftp-bound-data-channel-open branch from ff77098 to 77f20ff Compare August 30, 2026 20:44
The first run failed at `glib-sys`, exit 101, unable to find `glib-2.0`: the job went from checkout straight to starting the fixture and calling cargo, and the Tauri crate needs the GTK stack to link. The fixture itself was fine, the log shows it listening; the build never reached it.

Sixth instance today of one shape, and the first in YAML: a path added beside an existing one inherits nothing of what the existing one does. From inside the new job those three steps are off-screen exactly as a flag two lines below was off-screen earlier.

Copying only the install would have moved the failure rather than removed it. That mirror serves about 45 kB/s, `libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0` alone took 12m02s once and was still fetching at 23m02s when a cap killed it, which is why the sibling caches the archives. Without the two cache steps this lane would have become slow and intermittent instead of red, and intermittent is harder to diagnose than a clean failure.

The cache key is the sibling's rather than a new one. The package list is identical, so a separate key would pay the same 61.5 MB twice and neither job would ever help the other.

Checked by listing the two jobs' steps side by side rather than by re-reading the one just written: they now differ only where they must, in the fixture, the test and the log dump.

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2422-2434: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the opening-cap rationale onto open_with_cap.

This doc block describes the data-channel opening cap, but it is attached to list_with_cap. The listing rationale then starts at Line 2435 inside the same block, so list_with_cap carries two unrelated doc paragraphs while open_with_cap at Line 2474 keeps only a short note. Move the first paragraph to open_with_cap.

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-    /// A cap on OPENING a data channel, which is where the wait actually lives.
-    ///
-    /// Measured on `main`: a `RETR` against a server that refuses hangs before
-    /// the read loop is ever entered, inside the data connection's TLS
-    /// handshake. `read_watching_control` guards the loop, and the loop is not
-    /// reached. Two awaits in `data_command` are unbounded, and BOTH need this:
-    /// the passive connect, which is the only one of the two on a plaintext
-    /// session, and the TLS upgrade, which is the one that was measured.
-    ///
-    /// Returns `Ok(None)` when the budget expires, so the caller can realign
-    /// with the borrow of the control stream already released. Realignment is
-    /// deliberately NOT done here: the future being dropped is the crate's, and
-    /// the drop has to happen before anything else touches the session.
     /// A total cap on a listing, shaped so every caller keeps its own handling.

Then prepend the removed paragraph to the open_with_cap doc comment at Line 2474.

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In `@src-tauri/src/providers/ftp.rs` around lines 2422 - 2434, Move the
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In `@src-tauri/src/providers/ftp.rs`:
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Two defects in one block, and only the first was reported.

The reported one: the whole description of the opening cap, with the measurement and the two unbounded awaits, sat above `list_with_cap`, so that function carried the documentation of a different one and `open_with_cap` had only its closing note. Fifth time today that a comment describes something other than what it sits on.

The one underneath it was worse and is why this is not a tidy-up. The paragraph left on `list_with_cap` read that the expiry "is returned as an `FtpError`, not as a separate variant", that the three sites "match on it exactly as they already match on a server that refused", and that `MLSD` "still marks itself broken and falls through to `LIST`". Every clause is false since the fix: the expiry is `Ok(None)`, the sites match on that, and `MLSD` returns instead of falling through. That fall-through WAS the defect, so the comment described the bug as though it were still the behaviour, on the function it was removed from. A stale comment that flatters the code is a nuisance; one that documents a fixed bug as current sends the next reader to look for it.

The replacement says why the expiry is `Ok(None)` rather than an error: as an error it was indistinguishable from a reply the server had sent, so the three sites treated it as one more failure and carried on using a session whose listing reply was still owed. As `Ok(None)` the compiler makes each of them say what it does.

Found by reading the whole block rather than the flagged lines: the review pointed at the right region and saw the placement, the false paragraph was three lines below it.

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