question re:scp

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 tatjana.svizensky at arcs.ac.at wrote:

> > The problem is with:
> > 
> > inuyasha:/mnt/vortex/backup # scp ttsrvun1:/mnt/storage/backup/zditf2usrusers.dump .
> > zditf2usrusers.dump    0% |                             |     0       --:-- ETA
> > protocol error: expected control record
> > Write failed flushing stdout buffer.
> > write stdout: Broken pipe
> > 
> > where strace has the following to say at this point:
> > fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=1, ...}) = 0
> > old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000
> > _llseek(6, 0, 0xbfffebc4, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
> > 
> > so the correct fstat for files >2G is taken, but llseek instead of llseek64.

Someone needs to implement support for the (ugly IMO) llseek64 interface
in openssh. Anyone?

-d


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