Re: [Ssh-sftp-perl-users] [PATCH] Net::SSH2: A couple fixes for scp_get

[David R. <dbr...@cp...>]

On Friday May 12, 2006 22:01, Stephen Clouse wrote:
> Two minor fixes to scp_get.  I actually did these quite a while ago,
> but they've been rolled into our local RPM repository and I forgot
> about passing them along:
> 
> 1.  $stat{mode} gets anded with 0x777, which doesn't make any sense.
> This was causing us some weird permission problems on retrieved files.
>  I think the intended number here is 0777 (octal).
> 
> 2.  The output handle for scp_get should probably have O_TRUNC set,
> because I think this is what people expect.  We found this from
> getting errors about junk data at the end of tar files we were pulling
> down, because we maintain a local cache and sometimes pull down the
> same file multiple times and overwrite the local file.  If the updated
> file was smaller than the previous, the difference would remain at the
> end of the new local file.

Thanks again; applied to 0.09 candidate.

-- 
Dave
Isa. 40:31