https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2428
Darren Tucker <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Darren Tucker <[email protected]> --- The only platform that sets BROKEN_REALPATH is AIX, not Linux, and I can't remember what the reason for that one was offhand. The OpenBSD man page says ("All but the last component of pathname must exist when realpath() is called." The POSIX spec (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/realpath.html) says that it can return ENOENT if "a component of file_name does not name an existing file". but it also says: "IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004, item XSH/TC2/D6/110 is applied, updating the ERRORS section to refer to the file_name argument, rather than a nonexistent path argument." so it looks like earlier versions of the spec allowed (or in fact specified, depending on how you read it) the OpenBSD behaviour. The filexfer (v3) spec is silent on the question of what to do in the case of a non-existent file. Later versions[1] punt on this by adding an optional flag to select either behaviour, but the default is to not check for the existence of the file, so you could argue that this is the behaviour openssh should have. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs
