Re: SCP under SSH2

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Thor Simon wrote:

> There are legitimate reasons to not implement sftp -- it's a pig (let us
> leave aside whether it is a necessary pig or a useful pig; it is still a
> pig).

I would say that the current drafts of sftp tend to the porcine, but the 
older ones are quite lean.

For example OpenSSH's sftp-server, which implements v.3 of the protocol, 
is under 30kb, and it could be shrunk if the buffer API and support code 
common with the rest of the implementation was linked into a shared 
library.

Actually, OpenSSH's scp binary is slightly larger:

[djm@fuyu djm]$ size /usr/libexec/sftp-server /usr/bin/scp
text    data    bss     dec     hex
23708   684     2436    26828   68cc    /usr/libexec/sftp-server
27750   752     896     29398   72d6    /usr/bin/scp

-d