Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 03:15:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <20309.894622531@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 03:10:18 PDT." <20258.894622218@time.cdrom.com>
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> Well, last time I sat down and thought about this, I figured you could
> advertise fetch{Get,Put}URL() as the primary interfaces but also
> provide some of the existing libftpio functions as a set of
> fetchFTPFoo() functions for those who need to do _just_ that task. It
> may turn out that sysinstall is one such consumer for FTP media if the
> "transactional fetch" of the fetchFooURL() functions proves to be too
> slow when grabbing split distributions. I have the rather sneaking
> suspicion that it will be. :)
Wait, I had another thought - you could do connection caching! Yes,
with timers and an aging algorithm! :-) :-)
_ Jordan
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