Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:41:53 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/4172: suggest reconnection option added to fetch Message-ID: <199912171341.IAA92204@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <19991217152252.A21917@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Dec 17, 1999 03:22:53 pm"
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Neil Blakey-Milner once stated: =On Fri 1999-12-17 (08:17), Mikhail Teterin wrote: => No, ``-a'' is for "soft failures". It will not retry if the server => died in the middle of the process... = =So you want fetch to continue trying through several hard failures that =may indicate network disconnection, servers dying, nuclear war, and =other nasty things? I want there to be an option to request it to keep trying. Kind of like cvsup does. =A 'hard failure' is _supposed_ to be a show-stopper, surely? Not if the user explicitly requested it not to be :) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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