FTP puzzle?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:35:54PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Fri, 5 May 2006, zzapper wrote:
>>Say I am uploading a very large file to a server, can someone else with
>>an equally fast or slower download start to download before I've
>>finished?
>
>IIRC, the server will report the *actual* size of the file on disk, not
>the "projected" size the file will have after your upload.  So anyone
>attempting to download the file before it's finished uploading will get
>a truncated copy.

Personally, I've only tried this with hippos and the resulting carnage
of downloading only .79237 of a hippo convinced me never to try such an
activity again.

cgf