Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:22:53 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/4172: suggest reconnection option added to fetch Message-ID: <19991217152252.A21917@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <199912171317.IAA60345@rtfm.newton> References: <199912170948.BAA17861@freefall.freebsd.org> <199912171317.IAA60345@rtfm.newton>
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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? A 'hard failure' is _supposed_ to be a show-stopper, surely? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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