On Aug 01 09:34:52, deraadt@openbsd.org wrote:
> Unfortunately, that is how it works.
>
> I think you are making an assumption that 'scp' means 'cp over ssh'.
> You think it should therefore work maximum like cp. But it doesn't.
> It has hundreds of ways it doesn't work like cp. It is totally
> different code. It is just a 20 year mangle of the old CSRG rcp code.
>
> You need to think of "scp" meaning "secure file copy" not
> "ssh version of cp(1)".
Indeed, that was my expectation, naively.
Thanks for the insight.
Jan
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