Re: Changes to SFTP v6: new error messages

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

Richard Whalen wrote:
> I count 3 new error codes below - SSH_FX_GENERAL_FAILURE is not listed in the current draft, did you mean SSH_FX_FAILURE?

Yep!

Thanks for the good catch.

Joseph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-ssh-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost [mailto:ietf-ssh-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost]On
> Behalf Of Joseph Galbraith
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:57 AM
> To: ietf-ssh%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Changes to SFTP v6: new error messages
>
>
> I know we have people implementing a number of the extensions
> that shipped with the latest draft, and so changes to those
> are not ok.
>
> Do we have people that have shipped other portions of the
> SFTP v6 draft yet?
>
> I would like to add two more error codes, and language that
> requires implementations to interpret errors that aren't
> defined by the spec as if they were SFTP_E_GENERAL_FAILURE
> in order to facilitate adding addition errors in a backwards
> compatible way.
>
> I proposing adding the following text:
>
> > Implemenations MUST map unrecognized error codes to
> > SSH_FX_GENERAL_FAILURE.  Future revisions of the
> > protocol will add additional error codes without
> > bumping the version number.
>
> And the following two error codes:
>
>  > SSH_FX_OWNER_INVALID    29
>  >    The principle specified can not be assigned
>  >    as an owner of a file.
>  >
>  > SSH_FX_GROUP_INVALID    30
>  >    The principle specified can not be assigned
>  >    as the primary group of a file.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph