From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T18:11:30+09:00
Subject: Solved - it was my fault (was: Net::FTP : How to check whether chdir succeeded?)

> > Does anyone know a reliable way to detect, whether 
> Net::FTP#chdir was
> > successful? Even if the directory does not exist, no exception is
> > thrown.
> 
> That's odd. I tried running this snippet, connecting from a Windows XP
> Pro box to a RHEL box:
> 
> ftp = FTP.new(host, user, passwd)
> ftp.chdir('/totally/bogus')
> ftp.close
> 
> It raised an exception for me:

For me too. Sorry, my fault. I should have first stripped down my
example to
the most simple case. I had, without noticing, caught that exception
before
passing control on to the caller.

Ronald