On Fri, 4 Jul 2025, Philipp Marek via openssh-unix-dev wrote:
> Is this enough?
I think so?
> What about
>
> put -r ../ dest
> put -r ../. dest
> put -r ../.. dest
The "filename" variable I check in my patch comes from basename(3),
so it should be the final path component only.
AFAIK basename("../") yields "..", so the 2nd case should be ok too.
> I guess this resolves to the question whether source path structures
> should be built in the destination (like -R for rsync says) or not.
>
> put -r ../../foo/.. dest
>
> With foo being a symlink the intention might not be clear (which
> containing directory, of the symlink or its target?)
I don't see the ambuguity here, the thing that will be transferred here
will always be the contents of whatever directory ../../foo resolves to
as sftp doesn't transfer symlinks (though maybe one day we'll get around
to implementing https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428)
-d
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