If the user specifies a path with multiple directories that do not
exist, the SftpClient.CreateDirectory method does not create all the
missing parent directories. As such, we have to do so ourselves.
This addresses issue #2080.
The removed code was introduced in revision ba58651e5a ("Fix for
CreateFolder with SSH"), presumably to fix an issue where some SSH
backends did not like the trailing slash when creating new folders.
However, since we are not using the output argument of the call to
Substring, these statements have no effect.
By changing to IEnumerable, it is possible to iterate only a portion of the list, which is useful when not all entries are needed (e.g., when testing a connection).
All existing backends have been updated, and any which were able to be changed to yield return results in a straightforward way now do.
Many backends had a try/catch in the List() method. Due to the fact that yield returns can't be placed within a try/catch block, these have been refactored to either scope the try/catch to the parts that (should) be the only places throwing exceptions, so that exceptions are still caught and handled.
Note that lazy evaluation may cause some changes in behavior - exceptions that were previously thrown at the point of invokation of List() may now be thrown while it is being enumerated.
I believe this will not be problematic though, as the only well-known exception seems to be FolderMissingException, which should be thrown by Test(), but TestList() attempts to enumerate the list to force this exception.
Any places that require the legacy behavior can get it by simply converting the lazy enumerable to a List()
InvariantCulture is useful when comparing / sorting human language strings in a culturely correct way. It handles things like accented letters in a way that makes sense to humans (e.g., 'a' should be sorted next to 'á', rather than after 'z').
Ordinal looks just at the raw code points of the characters. As such, it is recommended for use in cases when comparing system strings (file paths, command line parameters, config settings, etc.). Since it doesn't need to use the culture specific sorting rules, this method can often be faster.
For more information, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/492799/difference-between-invariantculture-and-ordinal-string-comparison (and other related questions)
Was an backup canceled, a restart doesn't work. The problem was that a non existing file caused an failure. This fix handles this situation for the ssh and googledocs backend.
Sean Templeton