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Subject: Re: bin/4172: suggest reconnection option added to fetch
In-Reply-To: <19991217152252.A21917@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner
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To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:41:53 -0500 (EST)
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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


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