Detection of identical file doesn't work for localhost:

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Christian Kurz wrote:

> I have no idea and and that's why I asked here, if it would be possible
> to detect localhost and then invoke the other method for doing a
> file-copy. But as Damien pointed out, there far to many things to test
> for, so I also agree that openssh shouldn't be changed. 

Another way around the problem would be to make scp write to a temporary
file and then do a rename() as the last step. This would prevent people
from clobbering files.

-d

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