newbie wants to compile SCP into his own application

[Ben Lindstrom]

No clue.. but I think the code in the tree is pretty clear on the subject.

- Ben

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 aplumb at westpac.com.au wrote:

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> OK, I'll look into using sftp instead.... do you (or anyone else) have
> sample code for integrating sftp ?
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> Andrew.
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>                     Ben Lindstrom
>                     <mouring at etoh.evil        To:     aplumb at westpac.com.au
>                     admin.org>                cc:     openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
>                                               Subject:     Re: newbie wants to compile SCP into his own application
>                     20/02/2003 10:07
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> First off I suggest you look at sftp rather than scp.  There are less
> integration issues and I believe you'll be more happy with the results.
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> Second, you just can just add scp.c and libopenbsd-compat.a into your code
> and think you don't have nay more external dependances.  Just keep in mind
> scp forks to call ssh (same is true with sftp).
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> But in general, sftp code is much friendlier for integrating since it was
> designed for that reason.  scp (for how wonderful it is) is really a hack
> on a hack on a hack.=)
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> - Ben
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> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 aplumb at westpac.com.au wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I have seen in the OpenSSH source that the scp executable is built by
> > compiling scp.c and linking with libopenbsd-compat.a and libssh.a.
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> > me here if I'm wrong)
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> > My question is, can I make this a module in my own application by using
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> > scp.c source and ilnking the libraries mentioned above ? The reason is, I
> > want to perform an SCP from my application, but I don't want to execute
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> > external command line utility "scp". I want to be able to get a return
> > value to indicate success or failure and handle this in my app.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Andrew Plumb.
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