Re: XFree86 available via yum

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Err...  AFAIK ftp permits eve more pipelining than http, in that you
> can use a single control connection to open multiple transfers in
> parallel, whereas with http, since data and control connections are
> the same, you can only get data for one file after the transfer of the
> previous file is complete.  Now on to figure out how many ftp clients
> and servers actually take advantage of this fact :-)

For ftp you can only issue a single command, then wait for the reply. It
doesn't even permit you to issue

	user anonymous\r\npass whocares\r\ntype i\r\n ...

as one string.