Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:11:30 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.h ftp.c http.c main.c Message-ID: <20000309111130.A81944@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <200003081636.LAA06656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200003081302.FAA18063@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000308092014.A75180@fisicc-ufm.edu> <200003081636.LAA06656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:36:11AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:20:14 -0600, Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> said:
>
> > could we add a retry flag that keeps trying until the downloaded
> > file has the same size as announced by the server? it'd be really
> > useful for very lossy channels.
>
> while ! fetch ${FETCH_ARGS}; do
> sleep 60
> done
>
duh! you're right... this didn't work because fetch would return 0 even
though it hadn't downloaded the whole file, but this commit fixes that.
I don't think the retry flag is necesary then, it would only bloat the
code.
regards,
-oscar
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