Quoth Sam: 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”. ----------------------- Is this really necessary? Especially since it's a Cygwin specific patch, what is wrong with simply using /cygdrive/C/foo/bar? _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
