Detection of identical file doesn't work for localhost:

[Theo E. Schlossnagle]

That is exactly what I was going to say.  I run sshd in a chrooted environment
to provide secure "virtualized" CVS repository and a few other services on one
of my machines.  I really don't like the idea of OpenSSH thinking it knows
better than I do.  If I type localhost:/path/to/file, that is what I mean.

"Mark D. Baushke" wrote:
> Why? Well, one reason would be to copy from a chroot()ed environment
> back to the real host, of course... Probably not, but it is possible.
> There is no guarentee that localhost:/some/directory is in the same
> filesystem as /some/directory on the current machine as viewed by
> the currently running scp program.

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Theo Schlossnagle
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