On Windows, “scp C:/foo/bar remotehost:” will attempt to connect to a remote host “C” and access file “/foo/bar”. There is currently no syntax or flag to allow copying files that start with a drive name. This patch changes the behaviour (only on Cygwin) by considering that a single letter followed by a colon is a Windows drive name and thus an absolute path. This is also more consistent with the manual page that recommends to use absolute pathnames “to avoid scp treating file names containing ‘:’ as host specifiers”. It is still possible to access files on a machine “C” by using square brackets, e.g. “scp [C]:/foo/bar remotehost:”. There are countless user reports indicating that this behaviour is desirable: - http://stackoverflow.com/q/8975798/111461 - http://serverfault.com/q/582048/73723 - http://superuser.com/q/291840/71253 - https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/371q5i - http://stackoverflow.com/q/21587036/111461 - http://askubuntu.com/q/354330/12301 - http://superuser.com/q/338075/71253 - https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1131655.html - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/transfer-files-from-linux-to-windows-pscp-4175530524/ --- misc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/misc.c b/misc.c index 9421b4d..cd10287 100644 --- a/misc.c +++ b/misc.c @@ -435,6 +435,10 @@ colon(char *cp) if (*cp == ':') /* Leading colon is part of file name. */ return NULL; +#ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN + if (isalpha(*cp) && *(cp+1) == ':') /* Do not split at drive name. */ + return NULL; +#endif if (*cp == '[') flag = 1; -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
