From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Feb 10 8:10:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E83237B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1AGA2l45282; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102101610.f1AGA2l45282@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: bin/24977: fetch: noice in quiet mode (fix) Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/24977; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav To: .@babolo.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24977: fetch: noice in quiet mode (fix) Date: 10 Feb 2001 17:06:49 +0100 .@babolo.ru writes: > This bug was introduced something beetween 4.2-RELEASE and 2001 Jan 16 It's not a bug, it's a feature. Not knowing the size of the remote file can cause fetch(1) to operate incorrectly in some cases, so the user must be made aware that the size is not known. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message