[Bug 1302] scp failes to copy a file with newline

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302





------- Comment #1 from dtucker at zip.com.au  2007-04-04 21:26 -------
This is basically an unfixable limitation of the scp protocol.  The
header pretty much just "filename size modes\n" and when the filename
has a newline in it the protocol breaks.

You could escape the newlines (which I think I have a patch for
somewhere) but then the complaint becomes "scp changed my filename".

About the best that could be done is to bail or skip the file with a
"don't do that, then" error when someone tries to copy a file with a
newline embedded in the name.




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