[Bug 882] Scp cannot copy self-referring directories

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=882





------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2004-07-01 13:09 -------
(Ben beat me to this, but I'll add my voice anyway)

There is no specification of the scp protocol, it is just rcp over ssh.

We aren't interested in extending it at all: it is very widely deployed, 
undocumented, 20+ year old protocol with uncorrectable flaws and no versioning 
or migration mechanism.

It is better to improve the tools of the sftp (draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-*) 
protocol instead. This protocol fixes all of the above flaws and includes the 
ability to recognise and transfer symlinks. Our sftp tools aren't as complete as 
the scp ones (in particular, there are no recursive commands yet), but that can 
be rectified :)




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