BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 21 14:04:18 UTC 2011


On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
>> That's a good point. I was planning on using libfetch's restart
>> feature for this case. Do you think that would be unreliable?
>
> (old thread, but)
>
> libfetch does not have a restart feature, unless you mean the HTTP
> byte-range stuff.  The restart / mirror etc. stuff is implemented in
> fetch(1).

I did mean the byte range stuff (the URL offset argument). I took a  
look at the fetch(1) source, and it seemed like its restart  
implementation was just a very small amount of logic on top of this.
-Nathan


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