Re: dump format refinement

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:07:59PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:
> > Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> > > Indeed, it would be tricky. I wonder how httpd deals with this when
> > > you GET a file....?
> >
> > If it's really a file, then it would probably just stat it to get the
> > length.
>
> I bet mod_dav_svn *does* streamily suck the whole file out of
> libsvn_fs into a tmpfile, and then probably hands that tmpfile to
> httpd.

Nope. We stream the file right into Apache's output filter stack. And as you
found, there is an FS API for fetching the length :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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