* FTP puzzle? @ 2006-05-05 22:25 zzapper 2006-05-07 22:36 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: zzapper @ 2006-05-05 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk 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? -- http://successtheory.com/tips/ Vim, Zsh, MySQL Tips ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: FTP puzzle? 2006-05-05 22:25 FTP puzzle? zzapper @ 2006-05-07 22:36 ` Igor Peshansky 2006-05-07 23:03 ` Christopher Faylor 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-05-07 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List 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" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: FTP puzzle? 2006-05-07 22:36 ` Igor Peshansky @ 2006-05-07 23:03 ` Christopher Faylor 2006-05-07 23:38 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Christopher Faylor @ 2006-05-07 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: FTP puzzle? 2006-05-07 23:03 ` Christopher Faylor @ 2006-05-07 23:38 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-05-07 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Sun, 7 May 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. "There's more than one way to skin a hippo"? :-) Of course, it depends on exactly *which* .79237 of the hippo you've downloaded... 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" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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