Re: Proposed enhancement to scp

From: Steve Turner (bbqboyee_at_H2OlooWoodworks.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:00:04 GMT

Darren Tucker wrote:
> In article <_R4%b.24859$V26.14511@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>,
> Steve Turner <bbqboyee@H2OlooWoodworks.com> wrote:
>
>>How does one go about proposing an enhancement to a component of
>>OpenSSH? I would like to see an option added to scp that would cause
>>the creation of any non-existent directories leading up to the target
>>file.
>
>
> Go to http://bugzilla.mindrot.org, open a bug against OpenSSH with the
> severity set to "enhancement".

Thanks Darren, that's exactly what I did.

> Be aware that the model for scp is rcp, and if it's not something rcp
> does then there's a good chance it will not be accepted. (Also, -p is
> already used.)

I'm sorry to hear you say that. Where would GNU software be today if
they had decided that making improvements on the original code was a bad
idea? 

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