Bug#254616: scp: -p should honour ACLs and filesystem attributes
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:27:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004.06.16.0114 +0200]:
> > scp *can't* be changed in any significant way. Changing it breaks
> > compatibility, unavoidably. It's not a question of innovation:
> > innovation can happen in sftp, which is actually extensible.
>
> I wonder why scp is not implemented using stdin tunneling of ssh...
scp is defined to use the rcp protocol. It's at least five years too
late to try to change this. Please don't belabour the issue, there's no
point.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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