RE: Throttle option for GNU cp

[Chris Jack]

 

I think the high level problem is I'm using cygwin and the various options that have been proposed to do this (e.g. trickle, rsync) don't currently exist in the standard cygwin distribution.

Looking at the GNU rejected feature archive, I suspect I'm not going to have much joy from the GNU community so I might have to lobby the cygwin community to add something like trickle.

Thanks
Chris
 

> On: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:28:14, address@hidden wrote

> On 02/25/2014 11:39 AM, Chris Jack wrote:

> > Can I request that a throttle option is added to cp to allow the copy process to proceed more slowly and hence use less network bandwidth,
>
> Personally I don't think such options should be in each tool,
> since by its nature this is a global resource sharing problem,
> and thus the options/logic are better in locations with broader scope.
>
> Now there are such options in some commands,
> including rsync, which might handle this case for you.
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.