Bug#140828: ssh: scp progress bar way too optimistic

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 140828 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799
tags 140828 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:28:42PM +0200, pavel@Elf.ucw.cz wrote:
> When copying large file (65MB) over slow modem line (28k8), scp is way
> too optimistic. It reports ETA of about 1 hour, when real time it can
> get is something like 8 hours. What's worse, even in half of copy, it
> reports 0:30 ETA, when 4 hours are realistic. It should know better in
> middle of that. [Maybe "stalled" periods are not accounted into time,
> and "stalled" detection triggers way too much? I've seen lots of
> "stalleds".]

Sorry for the outrageous delay!

I think that this is the same problem reported in
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799. I'm going to be
uploading OpenSSH 5.1p1 to unstable relatively soon, and would
appreciate verification if you're still in a position to reproduce this
bug.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]