Re: [libssh2] An SCP API problem

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> My version doesn't do the counting of the bytes received but just calls
> libssh2_channel_read() assuming it would finally return 0 when the file
> transfer is completed.

BTW, the need for counting the file size "on your own" certainly opens up for
the question:

What if I scp a file which doesn't have a known size? Like a named pipe, or a
file that is being written to while we are transferring?

It feels like a bug to me. But I'll leave that for later anyway...

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Received on 2007-02-02