scp: Problem when source and destination are identical

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> scp is not 'broken'.  your suggested change will break both scp and rcp.
> 
> this patch may fix this special use. however, it will break scp/rcp
> into a directory when you can only write this particular file and
> not the directory.  moreover, it will change the scp/rcp behaviour
> if the partition is almost full. and so on.

Which is why everyone else agreed that a switch to change between "overwrite
in place" and "do atomic replace" is a good idea.

gert


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