Re: Proposed enhancement to scp

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:33:38 -0500

Bill Unruh wrote:
> Steve Turner <bbqboyee@H2OlooWoodworks.com> writes:
>
>
> ]Ok, but I don't really see how that relates to the discussion. I
> only ]used GNU as an example of "Continuous improvement helps lead to
> software ]that people actually continue to use". As is stands now,
> I've gotten
>
> Bigger does not necessarily mean better. In fact it often means worse,
> because the bigger it is the more bugs it is liable to accumulate.
>
> Yes, sometimes new features should come in, but there should be
> resistance. Bloatware is too common a feature of software, and tends
> to kill it.

The original rcp did not have encryption, host authentication, public key
authentication, cross-platform compilation, proper handling of connections
with background jobs running, or a plethora of other useful features. Those
are coming from our faithful OpenSSH developers, and we appreciate it.

I can see a bunch of reasons why adding a feature like automatically
creating target directory paths (like the 'mkdir -p' command) is potentially
useful, but also quite hazardous. It's a new feature that would have to be
integrated *very* carefully to avoid interesting behavior, like "what should
copying to target:/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/../../dir5 do if dir4 is a symlink to
/?"

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