Bug 24977

Summary:

fetch issues warning in quiet mode

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

.@babolo.ru

Component:

bin

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

4.2-STABLE

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

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Description .@babolo.ru 2001-02-09 23:20:01 UTC

Example:

0grimble~(9)>fetch -q -o - http://www.rbc.ru/ > /dev/null
fetch: -: size of remote file is not known

This is not desirable in scripts

How-To-Repeat: See example above

Comment 1 des 2001-02-10 16:06:49 UTC

.@babolo.ru writes:
> This bug was introduced something beetween 4.2-RELEASE and 2001 Jan 16

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Not knowing the size of the remote
file can cause fetch(1) to operate incorrectly in some cases, so the
user must be made aware that the size is not known.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

Comment 2 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer

2001-02-10 16:07:07 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Not a bug.