From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 9:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from radphy-royle-pc.medphys.ucl.ac.uk (alister.w.easynet.co.uk [212.212.251.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B41A155B1 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frankrj@netscape.net) Received: from netscape.net (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by radphy-royle-pc.medphys.ucl.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA10385; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:20:47 GMT (envelope-from frankrj@netscape.net) Message-ID: <37EBB2EF.D1F602CE@netscape.net> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:20:47 +0000 From: Francis Jordan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > This is quite interesting and I'm looking at it now. Just one quick > > > question though - why did you "roll your own" ftp I/O handling instead > > > of simply using fetch(3) or ftpio(3)? > > > BTW, I'm now utilizing ftpio(3) instead of my own kludge, I'll probably > send a new message to -hackers when the new version is ready. (I'm going > to spend a few days somewhere else.) Why not fetch(3)? I was under the impression that fetch(3) supersedes ftpio(3). Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message