On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:35:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.16.0450 +0200]: > > scp is defined to use the rcp protocol. It's at least five years > > too late to try to change this. Please don't belabour the issue, > > there's no point. > > as you wish. scp can send files to VFAT systems not supporting file > modes. an extension to the rcp protocol -- if done right -- would > only take effect when both sides support it. otherwise, it would be > silently ignored... > > i'll shut up.
Umm, if you really have a burning desire for such a feature, why don't you add it yourself. The code is out there. It seems that you have specific problem that you want solved to meet your needs. Seems that you would be the perfect person to solve it. If no one else wants it, so be it. But there is not thing to stop you getting the feature you want - assuming such a feature can acctually be added. Collin has explained that it is extreemly unlikely that such a change would go into the upstream code, but there is still nothing to stop you writing it yourself. That is the beuty of open source, you can make the code do what you want, even if no one else likes it. -- Horms
