Bug#254616: scp: -p should honour ACLs and filesystem attributes
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:07:00AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004.06.16.0029 +0200]:
> > The FAQ entry is there to discourage such requests. No, I don't
> > believe there's any point. sftp, perhaps.
>
> So the FAQ entry exists to discourage innovation???
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.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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