[4526] in Athena Bugs
ftp hash mark printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Wed Mar 14 23:53:20 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 23:53:07 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
ftp lies about printing hash marks:
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> get byteunix.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for byteunix.tar.Z (95233 bytes).
################################################################################################################################################################################
226 Transfer complete.
local: byteunix.tar.Z remote: byteunix.tar.Z
95233 bytes received in 46 seconds (2 Kbytes/s)
ftp>
If sendmail was feeling nice today, you will see 176 hash marks above, which
is not even close to (95233 / 1024). The code at
/source/bsd-4.3/common/ucb/ftp/ftp.c:460-480 prints a hash mark each time
read returns > 0. If the other end of the connection is sending in blocks
smaller than BUFSIZ, ftp will print a hash mark more often than once per
1024 bytes (our implementation of TCP will return partial reads as the data
becomes available).
