Hello,
I started digging in some problems and problems and bugzillas and this
was one problem I found and managed to solve so I'm letting you know
about this with patch. Severity is not critical, but according to other
users and bugzillas, it can mislead someone (during at almost 10 years
of existence according to Ubuntu).
To get to the point, there is problem in current version, that you are
getting strange error message if you try to scp existing local file to
non-existing remote directory (ending with slash). The most we can say
by example:
$ scp file host:new_dir/
This example ends up with quite strange error message:
> scp: new_dir/: Is a directory
Which doesn't make sense from the beginning, but after some digging in
code, you see that this error message is coming from place where scp is
trying to write the received data into file ending with slash (which
can't end other way than this).
My patch is trying to fix this specific issue and not to break any other
functionality, not like the previous attempt mentioned in bugzilla. As
I'm mentioning in bugzilla, all tests in regress passed and I also added
one more to verify that this edge condition is covered with reasonable
error message.
Once more, link to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1768
TL;DR: Can someone approve this patch for and include it in openssh?
Best regards,
Jakub Jelen
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