From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1478 invoked by alias); 7 May 2006 22:36:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 1471 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2006 22:36:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 07 May 2006 22:35:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k47MZsDS008537 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 18:35:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 22:36:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: FTP puzzle? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00211.txt.bz2 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. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"