SCP file corruptions

[Matt Studley]

I just tried this with an AFS mounted partition and it worked as expected
(normal remote copy).  Is your statement only true if the file is a
binary?  I did try it with a plain text file.

Matt Studley
American Mathematical Society
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com wrote:

>
> if /somedir/fileA on hostA == /path/to/fileB on hostB because of NFS/AFS/DFS/whatever
> then
> 	"hostA/somedir/: scp fileA hostB:/path/to/fileB" will corrupt the file
> fi
>
>
> --
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Studley [mailto:mjs at ams.org]
> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:14 PM
> > To: GATHMAN,DON (HP-Boise,ex1)
> > Cc: 'openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org'
> > Subject: Re: SCP file corruptions
> >
> >
> > What options did you use with scp and what was the exact
> > error message?
> > Generally, at least in my experience, scp will not copy over
> > a file when
> > the 'source' and 'destination' are identical when doing a local copy:
> >
> > $ scp test test
> > cp: test and test are identical
> >
> > when doing a remote copy, you will overwrite the remote file
> > but that is
> > a different situation and should not corrupt the file.
> >
> >
> > Matt Studley
> > American Mathematical Society
> > UNIX Sys Admin        		  "Quantum Mechanics -
> > mjs at ams.org			  	The dreams that stuff
> > is made of"
> >
> > On Mon, 6 May 2002, GATHMAN,DON (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I apparently was asleep at the wheel using scp, and
> > accidentally copied a
> > > file onto itself.  Scp generated an Input/Output error and
> > did not perform
> > > the copy.  However, now the file is corrupt.  Is this a
> > but? Is there anyway
> > > to fix the file I messed up?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Don Gathman
> > > 208.396.6675
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