scp: Problem when source and destination are identical

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:07:28PM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> What i would much rather see is for the destination scp to write the
> incoming file to a temporary file in the same directory, and then
> rename() it to the destination file on a successful copy.

Strongly seconded.  But Markus doesn't seem to like it, for no other
reason than "you can use tar/mv/rsync to do this".

> Against: Requires enough space available on the destination filesystem
>          to hold both the old and the new copy of each file; this could
>          be a drawback for large files.

Which is a good argument for having a switch to control this.

gert
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