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Matthias Vill wrote:
> I would appreciate having a --limit-rate N% option.
> 
> So now about those "broken" cases. You could do some "least of both"
> policy (which would of course still need the time to do measuring and
> can cut only afterwards).
> Or otherwise you could use a non-percent value as a minimum. This would
> be especially useful if you add it to your default options and stumble
> over some slow server only serving you 5KiB/s, where you most probably
> don't want to further lower the speed on your side.
> 
> As third approach you would only use the last limiting option.
> 
> Depending on how difficult the implementation is I would vote for the
> second behavior, although the first or third option might be more
> intuitive to some of the users not reading the docs.

Third option should be more intuitive to the implementer, too. I vote
for that, as I really want to avoid putting too much sophistication into
this.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/

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