Detection of identical file doesn't work for localhost:

[Tim Rice]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> 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.

I the file has links, that will break them.

> 
> -d
> 
> 

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