SFTP support for subsecond times

[Hans Petter Jansson]

On Tue, 2023-05-23 at 19:44 -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

> Historically the view has been if you want NFS-like filesystem over SSH 
> write a dedicated subsystem.  The OpenSSH project stopped following the 
> sftp spec when it tried to "be-everyting-to-everyone" protocol instead 
> of a clean and simple ftp/scp replacement.  As filesystem sharing 
> protocols have oddies between platforms that add a lot of complexity and 
> are unsuited for the original sftp purpose.
> 
> I suspect this view point still hasn't changed since I officially left 
> the project.

Thanks for the response --

If that is indeed the policy, I don't see that refining the metadata to
make timestamps more accurate, which is what Antonio is offering to
implement, necessarily contradicts it, though.

-- 
Hans Petter
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