newbie wants to compile SCP into his own application

[Darren Tucker]

aplumb at westpac.com.au wrote:
> My question is, can I make this a module in my own application by using the
> 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 the
> 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.

Probably, but it's likely to be much easier (and less maintenance too)
to just fork/exec scp then wait() for completion and check the return
code.  Is determining success/failure the only reason you want to embed
the code?

I've got some example code that might serve as a starting point if you
want it.

		-Daz.

$ scp localhost:/bin/ls /tmp/ls
$ echo $?
0
$ scp localhost:/no/such /tmp/ls       
scp: /no/such: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
1

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