On Aug 01 09:34:52, dera...@openbsd.org wrote: > Unfortunately, that is how it works. > > I think you are making an assumption that 'scp' means 'cp over ssh'. > You think it should therefore work maximum like cp. But it doesn't. > It has hundreds of ways it doesn't work like cp. It is totally > different code. It is just a 20 year mangle of the old CSRG rcp code. > > You need to think of "scp" meaning "secure file copy" not > "ssh version of cp(1)".
Indeed, that was my expectation, naively. Thanks for the insight. Jan