[Bug 23160] consider not requiring clients to generate checksums for file transfers

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23160





--- Comment #1 from Olivier Crête <tester at tester.ca>  2009-08-05 10:44:02 PST ---
0 is nasty because we need every client implementation to implement every
checksum known to man..

I propose changing to spec to separate the "provide me the file" from being
"when the transfer is "open"" to having a special signal for that
"PleaseProvideFile" or something.

Then use the current API.. ie give a fifo to the CM.. This has the advantage of
being full compatible with the current API. In the AIM case, we can just emit
PleaseProvideFile twice.

And then later when dbus 1.4 is upon us, we can add another API (ProvideFD) to
provide the FD to the CM directly with a flag saying if its seekable or not. If
its not seekable, then the CM can decide to re-emit the signal and get a new FD
or something. Even in the non-hash case, that will reduce the number of context
switches and should also improve performance.


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