[gridftp-user] globus-url-copy with udt and sshftp ..

[John Bresnahan]

Thanks for the feedback!  This kind of thing is very helpful.

> 1) It takes forever to build;

Are any of the binary releases offered by globus compatible with your system?  This could save you 
the trouble of building.

> 3) It tends to freeze, often writing strings of null characters to
> stdout if we're using "-vb".  We suspect that this occurs when an
> excessive number of udp packets get dropped.

Interesting, can you give us more info on why you suspect this is the reason?

> a) An option to quickly build simple executables for "file:" and
> "sshftp:" URLs only .. a bit like 'bbcp';

hopefully our binary releases can solve this for you.

> b) An option with the above to preserve timestamps;

We have traditionally avoided handling meta-data issues like this and ownership/file permissions. 
However we are open to users needs.  We will have some internal discussions on this.

> c) An option to specify a "no-progress" timeout in seconds.

This will very likely happen soon.  We have identified this as a problem elsewhere and have plans to 
fix detect and terminate transfers that hang like this.