Package: libarchive-dev
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I thought I already reported this, but apparently I didn't so here's the
idea: I'm the author of mod_musicindex, in which I use libarchive to
send on-the-fly tar archives to remote clients.
Right now, the remote client's browser cannot display any ETA /
%complete for the current download since I cannot tell before hand what
will be the exact size of the archive I'm sending them.
It would be very nice if there were some API allowing for the
precomputation of the final size of a non-compressed archive that would
allow me to do something like:
archive_size = archive_size_header(a);
for (<filename in file list>) {
archive_size += archive_size_addfile(filename);
/* or using stat() and eg archive_size_addstat() */
}
archive_size += archive_size_footer(a);
(brainfart pseudo code, I hope you get the idea)
so that in the end archive_size will be exactly the size of the output
archive (header/padding included), without having to actually read files
or write the archive itself.
I could thus send the remote client the actual size of the data they're
going to be send beforehand.
The trick is, this size cannot be approximate: the browser will cut the
transfer even if I'm still sending them data if it has received as many
bits as it was told.
I'm under the impression that since this is about non-compressed
archive, and considering the structure of a tar archive, my goal should
be feasible without even having to read any input file. Am I wrong?
Hope I'm quite clear, thanks for your help
T-Bone
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