openssh unix dev - Mar 2003 - [Bug 520] Recursive operations

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520

           Summary: Recursive operations
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: sftp
        AssignedTo: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: djm at mindrot.org


The sftp client should support recursive operations. For example, "get -R
somedir" should copy the directory tree rooted at somedir.

Probably achieve this by forking a copy of OpenBSD's fts routines
(libc/gen/fts.c) and teach them sftp.



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------- Additional Comments From mouring at eviladmin.org  2003-03-27 09:06
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fts would be easy enough to use for recursive.  I think 'put' can be
written in
a matter of a night or two (Assuming one is awake <chuckle>), but there is
one
minor downfall to fts.   It assuming all access is local.  And unlike glob it 
does not support the ability to override opendir(), readdir(), closedir(), lstat
() and stat().

Unless there is something I'm missing get and put can't both use fts
effectly
without forking the code and rewriting small chunks of it.

Would be nice if fts could be modified to support virtualizing those function 
calls, but with it having a chance of going into POSIX (some century) I doubt 
the API can change much.



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