Bug 2203 - scp hangs with -f option
Summary: scp hangs with -f option
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: scp (show other bugs)
Version: -current
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 minor
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2014-02-20 12:08 AEDT by Martin Fuller
Modified: 2015-08-11 23:04 AEST (History)
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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