sftp client

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Unfortunately, hitting some bugs with current CVS against sftp-server
> from the same CVS checkout.
> 
> If you try to change to a non-existent directory, your next command
> always leads to a "xfree: NULL pointer given as argument" and sftp
> exiting

This is a known problem, it will be fixed shortly.

> Trying to GET any files gives me "Couldn't close file: No Such File"

Is this after a bad chdir?

> Versus the sftp-server in 2.3.0p1, the client just fails horribly,
> hanging at the end of an ls, and showing the same symptoms as against
> the current CVS sftp-server for a get.  Not sure if that's expected or
> not :)

Can you turn on verbose debugging? "sftp -v -v -v" 

-d


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