Re: VMS patch set (extensive) - first try (almost)

[email protected] (Steven M. Schweda) writes:

>       The fflush function flushes the HP C RTL buffers. However, RMS
>       has its own buffers. The fflush function does not guarantee
>       that the file will be written to disk. (See the description of
>       fsync for a way to flush buffers to disk.)

That seems perfectly reasonable and is exactly what Wget expects.

I wasn't joking about my reasons to introduce the flush, and I'm sorry
that you find them ridiculous.  Regardless of that, it was never my
intention to slow down anyone's download, and therefore I find it
perfectly acceptable that your VMS patches #ifdef it out.  At the
moment I see no reason to remove the fflush on systems supported by
Wget mainline.

For what it's worth, and removing the fflush doesn't make any
difference in download speed on Linux.  (Tested with fast downloads
over the local network and from localhost.)