[Bug 485] scp doesn't preserve symbolic links

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------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2003-06-06 00:22 -------
This discussion is academic - no option to copy symlinks is going to be added.
We may add a patch to stop following of symlinks though.

Even if we did have a desire to "extend" the rcp protocol, one must consider not
only interop against older version of OpenSSH, but also ssh.com and other free
and commercial servers (and dozens of Windows clients). With scp being specified
as "BSD rcp over ssh", a protocol lacking extensibility mechanisms or feature
negotiation, there is no chance of them all changing.

You may have more luck conviencing someone to make a scp-like commandline
interface to sftp - a protocol which does have the ability at protocol level to
transfer symlinks. That would be a separate bug.



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