Re: [Bug-wget] Writing whole blocks?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Sebastian Pipping <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed that wget writes data to disk as it comes in.

This is not strictly true, it is up to the OS to write data to disk.
What Wget does is that it doesn't hold the data in stdio buffers after
receiving it from the network.  Since the data comes from the network in
buffers, this is exactly what you want.  It would be a bad idea to
interrupt Wget only to find that some data is missing because Wget was
unnecessarily buffering it.

> I was wondering if you would be interested to incorporate a patch
> buffering writes to full page caches sizes (e.g. 4096 in my machine)
> by default and adding a parameter to override this behavior.

Can you describe a specific problem that this additional parameter would
address?

Hrvoje