Re: Extended attributes and archives (tar, cpio, mpax, makefs...)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:45:40PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> >> I am not sure it is worth the trouble looking at rcp.  scp does not
> >> know about EA, but would it be desirable to change that?
> > The openssh people seem to think that the scp protocol should die,
> > and that anything new should go into the sftp protocol.
> 
> Eww.
> 
> scp should either die or be documented, but I'd prefer to document it
> rather than kill it.  sftp may be fine as a remote filesystem access
> protocol, but it's horribly over-complex for just copying files from
> machine A to machine B.

sftp might be a bit more complicated, but at least some an
implementation PoV, scp is just crap.

Joerg