Hi all, Apologies if this has already been discussed before; I googled a bit before coming here but couldn't find any mention of this issue. The other day I noticed what felt like some strange behavior from SFTP. When doing a recursive put command to upload a directory and making the folder a "." or "..", it gets copied to the destination with those dots. I'm not good at explaining things so perhaps it's easier to give an example. If I ran: $ cd /path/to/source_dir $ sftp dest_host sftp> put -r . /destination/path Instead of transferring source_dir as a full directory to "/destination/path/source_dir", what happens is the "." is simply appended to /destination/path resulting in all of the files going to "/destination/path/.". Even worse, if I tried to transfer ".." to "/destination/path", all my files would instead go to "/destination"! This feels problematic to me because it's completely unexpected behavior from what one would expect based on any other scenario when uploading a directory. I think I found where in sftp.c this is happening: [image: image.png] So my question now is, would there be interest in me submitting a pull request for a fix to this? Or am I completely missing something? Don't want to waste any effort/waste any reviewer's time if this is intentional or something that should be expected :) Thanks, Andrew _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
