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Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00



Hi Joseph,
At 08:40 22-07-2013, Joseph Galbriath wrote:
The problem here is that OpenSSH implemented packet 20 backwards from
the spec (swapped target and source file).  Others implement the spec
correctly.  And because of backwards compatibility, no one wanted to
change.

So I dropped packet 20 as basically unimplementable and introduced
SSH_FXP_LINK to replace it (and also supported hard links at the
same time).

An alternative is to document the OpenSSH case and mention that it can cause an interoperability issue.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy



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