[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-27 15:35, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <nkr5cb$lui$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2016-06-24 14:52, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article <nkhf9i$7s3$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Uh? Say what? Everything in TCP/IP is just a stream of bytes. There are
>>>> no blocks, nothing is sent in any multiple of blocks.
>>>> (And besides, text files in Unix do not have CF and LF in them. They
>>>> just have LF. Which is why I was complaining about Unix ftp
>>>> implementations, which often lies about file size, and sometimes cheat
>>>> when transferring in text mode. These protocols were not designed by
>>>> Unix people...)
>>>
>>>    So hwo does UNIX solve it?  By lieing about it?  Does that work
>>>    anyhow?  If so, then why can't VMS lie about it?  Or do both UNIX
>>>    and VMS have to read the file twice to get it right?
>>
>> With HTTP Unix just stat() the file, and return the size as reported,
>> and everything is correct.
>
>    Not if the protocol is depending on CRLF.

Well, I suspect you mean if Unix have a file in the native text format, 
and is expected to serve it as a text with CRLF line endings. In that 
case yeah, then stat() will not suffice.

	Johnny