Re: clarifications for SFTP extensions draft

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

denis bider wrote:
>> If you or someone else felt strongly about it though, I'd be
>> willing to specify the "check-file" is the alias for both of
>> these.
> 
> Well, I'd actually like to require the server that if it
> supports one, it must support both. It seems trivial for a
> server to implement both versions (the only difference is it
> has to explicitly open the file in the check-file-name case),
> and adaptation is tricky for the client if it finds that the
> server supports "check-file-handle" but not "check-file-name",
> for example.

Well, there is one other difference: check-file-handle
has to honor the SSH_FXF_ACCESS_TEXT_MODE flag.

But it still seems reasonable to require support for
both.  I'll make this change.

> I think we should classify both types of the request as
> "check-file" and say explicitly that people should advertise
> exactly that, no variations.

Thanks,

Joseph