Feature request for SSH FTP

Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:17:41 -0000

On 08/08/2009 10:31 PM, dawg wrote:
> I suggest that files transferred via SSH should be saved to a temp
> folder until the transfer is complete, then only would the original file
> be overwritten.

I believe this is already possible with sftp:

 put important-file important-file.XXXX
 rename important-file.XXXX important-file

Would this workflow solve your problem?

The only primitive i see missing for a complete/robust implementation
would be a mktemp equivalent as an sftp primitive (to avoid collisions
in the choice of temporary filenames), but that seems like a very
different feature request.

	--dkg

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