disabling local-to-local transfers?

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2026, Brian Candler wrote:

> On 25/07/2026 02:05, Damien Miller wrote:
> > 	for av in "$@" ; do
> > 		if test -z "$_flagsdone" ; then
> > 			case "$av" in
> > 			-*) continue ;;
> > 			*) _flagsdone=1 ;;
> > 			esac
> > 		fi
> > 		case "$av" in
> > 		*:*) _remote=1 ;;
> > 		esac
> > 	done
> 
> That's a rough heuristic. I think that properly parsing scp arguments is 
> hard, e.g.
> 
>      scp -J 2001:db8::1 foo bar
> 
> A fully-functional wrapper would likely have to duplicate the entire 
> argument parsing code from scp.

sure, but at this point you have to realise that you're debugging a joke