scp: missing progressbar, better behaviour on small windows

[Ben Lindstrom]

Why would we use 'sprintf'?  We have been careful to keep that insecure
garbage out of our code.

- Ben

On Tue, 6 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] "Uwe Räsch" wrote:

> I miss the stars when doing scp. My suggestion for progressmeter.c makes scp to
> display different fields on different terminal widths. Maybe this is useful for
> you.
>
> Once in "start_progress_meter()" the outlook of the progressline is calculated.
> In "draw_progress_meter()" sprintf() instead of snprintf() together with some
> strlen()'s can be used, because the buffersize has been respected before. The
> remaining time can now have the form "> 99 days", "11d12:44" or as before
> "22:33:44" and "   33:44".
>
> Okay, with 80 columns the filename is displayed with only 24 characters instead
> of the 45 in the original code after 2002/12/13, but using 121 columns should
> not be a problem today.
>
> (See attached file: progressmeter.c)
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