From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25529 invoked by alias); 7 May 2006 23:03:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 25522 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2006 23:03:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fios.cgf.cx (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 07 May 2006 23:03:18 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 5091813C01E; Sun, 7 May 2006 19:03:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 23:03:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: FTP puzzle? Message-ID: <20060507230317.GC5992@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:35:54PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Fri, 5 May 2006, zzapper wrote: >>Say I am uploading a very large file to a server, can someone else with >>an equally fast or slower download start to download before I've >>finished? > >IIRC, the server will report the *actual* size of the file on disk, not >the "projected" size the file will have after your upload. So anyone >attempting to download the file before it's finished uploading will get >a truncated copy. Personally, I've only tried this with hippos and the resulting carnage of downloading only .79237 of a hippo convinced me never to try such an activity again. cgf