scp of Files > 2GB on HP-UX causes "protocol error: size not delimited"

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Tob_Sch at gmx.de wrote:
> we compiled OpenSSH 4.3p2 / OpenSSL 0.9.8a / zlib 1.2.3 on different
> platforms.
> 
> When we copy files > 2GB with "scp" on HP-UX (compiled on HP-UX 11.00 with
> gcc 3.4.3) on a filesystem with activated largefile-option, we receive
> following:
> 
> protocol error: size not delimited

It's a bug in OpenSSH's snprintf implementation.  Description and patch
here: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173

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