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Date:      Sun, 19 Jan 97 23:39:26 +0100
From:      Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
To:        FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: bin/2528: fetch(1)'s timeout is ridiculously short
Message-ID:  <9701192239.AA13184@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199701191110.DAA27226@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from J Wunsch on Sun, 19 Jan 1997 03:10:01 -0800 (PST))

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>>>>> J Wunsch writes:
	
 > Don't imply a timeout of its own.  A TCP connection has a timeout in
 > the range of 4 hours, and i fail to see a reason why an application
 > should abort an otherwise intact TCP connection.  We are not Windows.
 > :-)

Maybe, but I have seen ftp sessions which never end. Not after 4
hours, not even after 4 days.
And you can always 'export FTP_TIMEOUT=14400'.

Jean-Marc
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