Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:31:49 +0100 From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> To: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.c Message-ID: <200408161031.i7GAVnhQ093973@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:16:50 %2B0200." <xzp1xi7mlpp.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
> Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > If you are fetching something (usually happens with "make fetch" in
> > ports/), and there is a line outage (happens on my ISDN line sometimes,
> > fetch does not recover. The progress meter freezes on wherever it was
> > and fetch stops doing anything. A ^C breaks out of it, but that obviously
> > messes up a big fetch :-).
>
> 'man fetch', look for the -T option.
I saw that; but how come "ftp ${URL}" works through "normal" network short
outages where "fetch ${URL}" does not? Hanging rather than failing seems
wrong to me.
M
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Mark Murray
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