openssh bugs - Aug 2021 - [Bug 3340] New: clarify "original" and "mode" in scp(1) manpage

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3340

            Bug ID: 3340
           Summary: clarify "original" and "mode" in scp(1)
manpage
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 8.6p1
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P5
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: calestyo at scientia.net

Hey.

In that manpage, the -p option uses the term "original", but it's
not
directly clear, whether this means the source file or the (original)
destination files (which I think it rather indicates).

It seems however that it's the source file that's meant, so I guess
that would be a clearer wording.


Also "modes" (in -p and -P above) might be ambiguous:
E.g. POSIX standard uses the definition:
>File Mode
>An object containing the file mode bits and some information
>about the file type of a file.
But here only the file mode bits are meant.

Perhaps something like "permission mode" or maybe the above "file
mode
bits" might be better? And maybe adding that any ACLs wouldn't be
preserved.


Cheers,
Chris.

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3339
[Bug 3339] Tracking bug for openssh-8.8
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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
Fixed, thanks.  It now says:

-P port
       Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.  Note that
       this option is written with a capital `P', because -p is already
       reserved for preserving the times and mode bits of the file.

-p     Preserves modification times, access times, and file mode bits
       from the source file.

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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

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--- Comment #2 from Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net>
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Thanks :-)

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
closing bugs resolved before openssh-8.9

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