openssh unix dev - Jul 2002 - recursive scp fails on ReliantUNIX 5.43 (using OpenSSH 3.4p1)

Hi,

I have tried to make a recursive scp from a ReliantUNIX machine to an other UNIX
machine and got an infinite loop on the source machine.
A "normal" scp works well.
Also strange is, that the first two letters of the directory respectively file
name are missing in the output below.
The destination machine produces a directory structure with growing subdirectory
names.
Below you can see the output of the test scenario: 

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XYZ $ ls -lR dir_ssh_test
Gesamt 8
drwxr-x---   2 user1     users         96 Jul  1 08:51 dir_a
drwxr-x---   2 user1     users         96 Jul  1 08:52 dir_b
-r--r-----   1 user1     users       2590 Jul  1 08:50 file_1
-rw-r-----   1 user1     users        400 Jul  1 08:50 file_2

dir_ssh_test/dir_a:
Gesamt 8
-r--r-----   1 user1     users       2590 Jul  1 08:51 file_1a
-rw-r-----   1 user1     users        400 Jul  1 08:51 file_2a

dir_ssh_test/dir_b:
Gesamt 8
-r--r-----   1 user1     users       2590 Jul  1 08:52 file_1b
-rw-r-----   1 user1     users        400 Jul  1 08:51 file_2b


XYZ $ scp dir_ssh_test/file_1 XYZ:/tmp
file_1               100% |*****************************|  2590       00:00    


XYZ $ scp -r dir_ssh_test XYZ:/tmp
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_b: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_a: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_b: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_a: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_b: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_a: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_b: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_a: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test: Too many open files
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_b: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/r_a: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_1: No such file or directory
dir_ssh_test/le_2: No such file or directory
XYZ $ Killed 


XYZ $ ls -lR /tmp/dir_ssh_test
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

/tmp/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test/dir_ssh_test:
Gesamt 0
drwxr-x---   3 user1     users         96 Jul  1 09:01 dir_ssh_test

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Does anybody have a solution for this problem?

Regards,
Tino