Francis Brennan wrote:
> Has anyone else run across a bug in the FTP task in Ant 1.7.0 related to
> Feb 29th timestamps?.
>
> I've used the FTP task as part of an automated system to retrieve builds
> from a server and has been functioning reliably for many months without
> change. Beginning on Feb 29th at 12:00 AM, all FTP "recv" operations on
> multiple machines (windows and unix) began failing with
> nullPointerException originating from the FTPDirectoryScanner subclass.
>
> The problem reproduces if I attempt to retrieve a file with a Feb 29th
> date or if the file I am trying to retrieve is in a directory with other
> files or directories, any of which have a Feb 29th date. This issue
> does not appear to affect "put" operations.
>
> Anyone else run across this problem or know of a patch for it? If not,
> I'll report it as a new bug.
>
> Francis
>

Report it as a bug, with a stack trace, and we'll take a look.

-is it the remote files that have feb 29 dates?
-the locale is english, yes?

-include an FTP listing of the remote directory for us to look at

-steve

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Steve Loughran            http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
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