TJ Saunders wrote: > I looked into this, and tracked down the issue. Thanks for this. I just pushed a modified version of your fix.
> The libssh2 SFTP library code always sends file permissions when > opening a file, regardless of whether that file is going to be > opened for reading or for writing. And on the server end, the > mod_sftp module always honors any permissions sent by the client, > regardless of whether the file is being opened for reading or writing. > > Arguably this is not the best behavior for both the client and the server > end of things, It's actually a protocol break by the server. --8<-- draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13.txt page 33 The 'attrs' field is ignored if an existing file is opened. -->8-- Anyway it's not a big deal for us to only send if not open read-only. //Peter _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-devel