Re: Draft draft of coming sftp revision...

["Joseph Galbraith" <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost>]

Good catch.  I've reordered them.  See my
next message for more about times.

- Joseph


> Is there a good reason for changing the relative order of times and
> permissions in the file attributes?  The change makes it harder to program
a
> client/server that can handle either.
>
> draft-02:
>
>    uint32   flags
>    uint64   size           present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_SIZE
>    uint32   uid            present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_UIDGID
>    uint32   gid            present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_UIDGID
>    uint32   permissions    present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_PERMISSIONS
>    uint32   atime          present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ACMODTIME
>    uint32   mtime          present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ACMODTIME
>    uint32   extended_count present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_EXTENDED
>    string   extended_type
>    string   extended_data
>    ...      more extended data (extended_type - extended_data pairs),
>       so that number of pairs equals extended_count
>
>
> draft-draft:
>    uint32   flags
>    byte     type always present
>    uint64   size           present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_SIZE
>    string   owner          present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_OWNERGROUP
>    string   group          present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_OWNERGROUP
>    uint32   atime          present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ACMODATIME
>    uint32   ctime          present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ACMODCTIME
>    uint32   mtime          present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ACMODMTIME
>    uint32   permissions    present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_PERMISSIONS
>    string   acl present only if flag SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_ACL
>    uint32   extended_count present only if flag
> SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_EXTENDED
>    string   extended_type
>    string   extended_data
>    ...      more extended data (extended_type - extended_data pairs),
>       so that number of pairs equals extended_count
>
>