Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers

[Simon Tatham <anakin%pobox.com@localhost>]

nico  <nico%verizon.net@localhost> wrote:
> I don't see why the attributes wouldn't suffice for the case of ASCII
> text files:
[...]
> client: write(handle, ...)
> client: write(handle, ...)
> ..
> server: OK
> server: OK
> ..
> client: close(handle)
> server: OK
> server: <create/truncate the file, write text sans LF and marking the
> 	 record boundaries where the LF characters were in the original>

If I'm reading that right, you seem to be suggesting that the server
should store the whole file in memory until the client closes it.
Wouldn't this be hideously unpleasant to do with big files?

Simon
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