Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

JanC usenet at janc.invalid
Fri May 8 18:24:54 EDT 2009


Gabriel Genellina wrote:

> In addition, the zip file format stores the directory at the end of the  
> file. So you can't process it until it's completely downloaded.  

Well, you *can* download the directory part first (if the HTTP server
supports it), and if you only need some files, you could then only
download these files out of the .zip, saving a lot in download time...


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JanC




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