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

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Mon, 22 July 2013 18:38 UTC

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:48:24 -0700
To: Joseph Galbriath <galb-list@vandyke.com>
From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
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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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