> I'm not entirely happy with the fix. It terminates the download when all > the relevant bits of the ELF have been transferred. The causes the > sender to think that the file transfer has failed which causes some > customer confusion.
It is possible to include a text string in the error message. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1350.html, figure 5-4. So maybe a message like "Remaining file contents not required" would prevent confusion. This assumes the lame tftp servers actually display the message to the user. > I think a better solution would be for the downloader to continue to > transfer the remaining portions of the ELF image and just throw them away." This can be a lot of data, eg the complete debug symbol table if the image has been compiled -g. I would not really be in favor of that. Andrew
