I tried doing scp of a sysfs attribute. I found that it duplicated the data, as well as adding extra NUL bytes. E.g.:
# scp /sys/class/net/eth0/address localhost: # cat ~/address d0:39:72:53:ef:0e d0:39:72:53:ef:0e # hexdump -C ~/address 00000000 64 30 3a 33 39 3a 37 32 3a 35 33 3a 65 66 3a 30 |d0:39:72:53:ef:0| 00000010 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |e...............| 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000800 64 30 3a 33 39 3a 37 32 3a 35 33 3a 65 66 3a 30 |d0:39:72:53:ef:0| 00000810 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |e...............| 00000820 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00001000 Does that seem normal? -- Craig McQueen
