Bug 2203

Summary:	scp hangs with -f option
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Martin Fuller <fuller.martin.f>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	djm
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description Martin Fuller 2014-02-20 12:08:50 AEDT

It seems that if you run any scp command with the '-f' option it will hang forever and perform no action.
There is no error message generated, just sits there.

-Martin

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2014-02-20 13:31:24 AEDT

Could you explain a little more what you are trying to do? 

scp doesn't take a 'f' option from users - it is not documented in the manual page and is only used internally to indicate that scp should be placed in server mode.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2014-07-03 13:53:12 AEST

scp -f is for internal use by scp only. It's one of the (many) unfortunate aspects of the scp protocol we can't change

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2015-08-11 23:04:34 AEST

Set all RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED with release of OpenSSH 7.1