Re: ENOSPC, Mozilla doesn't DWIM

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: ENOSPC, Mozilla doesn't DWIM
Date: 11:43 on 14 Aug 2003
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Juerd wrote:
> /tmp was full at 94% of a very slow download. So Mozilla decided to stop
> the download completely. As soon as I clicked [OK], the file was
> unlinked. No chance of resuming the thing. Now I need to start all over.
> 
> Besides, I told it to save the file in /mnt/foo, not in /tmp. /mnt/foo
> has more than enough available space.

Mozilla must be following the IE philosophy of "download your file to
a temp directory then *copy* it (not rename) to its final destination".

This has the benefits of:
* Consuming twice the disk space
* Leaving your disk uncluttered by canceled downloads
* Unburdens you of the desire to look at partially downloaded files.

These days I download everything that'll take more than a few minutes
with wget -c.


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Michael G Schwern        schwern@xxxxx.xxx  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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