Re: Wget should like the file

Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It happened to me to unintentionally run two commands:
>
>   wget -b -c http://some/file.tar.gz
>
> and hours later I figured out that the 1GB that I've downloaded
> is useless since two wget processes have been downloading the
> same data twice and appending to the same file. :(
>
> So, wget should lock the file for writing, that seems like it
> doesn't.

Thanks for the report.  I believe this problem is fixed in Wget 1.10,
where the second Wget process would write to file.tar.gz.1, using
O_EXCL to make sure that two processes are not clobbering the same
file.