[Bug 861] Swapped parameters of SSH_FXP_SYMLINK packet of SFTP protocol

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=861


djm at mindrot.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2005-02-09 15:30 -------
I have thought about adding filexfer-06 support but every time I go to read the
internet-draft again I am repulsed by all the unnecessary bloat that has crept
in. Not to mention that the filexfer negotiation mechanism requires that we
implement versions 4 and 5 of the protocol too.

We could use an extension to detect this bug, but I recall some discussion on
the working group mailing list that SSH_FXP_INIT extensions were removed because
of incompatibility with filexfer-02 clients. 

Therefore, we would need to use a SSH_FXP_EXTENDED packet. This would need an
additional round-trip and would only work for clients that know about the
extension anyway. I also think that it is overkill to do all this to fix a
argument-swapping bug. So I think this solution is pretty useless :(

To avoid breaking deployed software, I think that the only "solution" is to
leave the bug as it is and fix it if/when we add support for a newer filexfer
version.



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