Re: Continue mode in fish protocol - change ibs?

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> When using e.g. get -c in fish dd first uses a lot of cpu doing nothing
> (in fact seeking in the file).
> 
> Could it be possibile to increase input block size for dd command?

Unfortunately, dd pays attension to read boundaries and it depends on
operating system what the boundaries are. That's why I had to use ibs=1.

> The best if the block size was configurable.

Probably it would be better to use head and tail commands when they are
available and support byte counts.

> Also there seems to be a bug somewhere in the fish protocol handling.
> Suddenly the output of the file started to be outputted on stdout/stderr
> (at least it seemed so). Maybe it was because the remote file was
> growing when i was downloadin it?

Yes, it is a problem when the file grows.

-- 
   Alexander.