Re: Sftp: performance enhancing changes

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:24:06PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> The existence of a single (with perhaps one or two others) fixed
> implementation does not imply any real solution to the problem (it's like a

yes, just most of the implementations have this fixed.

> guy I know who tells everyone who'll listen that X.500 has been a great
> success because his company has managed to build an X.500 directory that works
> OK most of the time).  There are still large numbers of implementations out
> there which get it wrong, and will probably never be fixed because the
> implementors couldn't be bothered, and that for entire user populations (and
> I'm specifically thinking Windows here) all they'll ever see is the broken
> versions.

sure but these implementations have to be fixed in one way
or another, so why fix it by breaking the protocol?