openssh bugs - Dec 2003 - [Bug 778] sftp client globs entire path, directories enclosed in square brackets are unusable

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778

           Summary: sftp client globs entire path, directories enclosed in
                    square brackets are unusable
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: ix86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P4
         Component: sftp
        AssignedTo: openssh-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: vdr781 at yahoo.com


sftp client uses glob() to glob the absolute path + relative path.  In the 
scenario where the current working directory is something like "/tmp/
[testdir]", and you try to retrieve a file "testfile.txt" from
that directory
doing a get "testfile.txt" or mget "testfile.txt" then sftp
client prepends the
cwd and the arguments to get and then passes them to a globbing routine.  
Making it difficult to retrieve files from a directory enclosed in square 
brackets.  sftp should probably not glob at all when using get/put, and only 
glob the arguments to mget/mput <not the current working directory>.



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