Setting setuid, setgid and sticky bit by SFTP protocol

Hi!

I develop a windows SSH SFTP client and I'm currently in process of getting and setting file permissions.

I noticed that my client is unable to set setuid, setgid and sticky bit on remote file/directories. The reason for that is that in process_setstat() of OpenSSH sftp-server.c the permission is restricted to 0777 (instead of 07777). But an ordinary user can set such bits on files/directories if he is logged in.

Is there a reason to disable these special permissions by the SFTP protocol?

Thanks!
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h.wulff
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