Bug 2701

Summary:

sftp and scp show wrong units for speeds and file sizes in progress meter

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Jakub Jelen <jjelen>

Component:

sftp

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

7.4p1

Hardware:

Other

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Proposed patch to use units recommended by IEEE	none

Description Jakub Jelen 2017-03-30 22:30:27 AEDT

Created attachment 2967 [details]
Proposed patch to use units recommended by IEEE

Reading through IEEE_1541-2002 [1], OpenSSH progress meter code is wrongly using K, M, G, T prefixes as a multiplies of 1024. The data should be divided either by 1000 or the correct prefixes should be used (Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti).

This can be very confusing for users [2] who compare the sizes with other tools presenting sizes in correct format.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43115542/scp-transfer-reports-100-complete-and-is-transferred-but-file-size-is-inco