Deprecating scp [LWN.net]

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 1:50 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
Parent article: Deprecating scp

I didn't know how old and crufty the underlying protocol was for scp. Given that fact, maybe borrowing ideas from sftp and rsync would make for a better, shall we say, scp foundation.

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Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 10:58 UTC (Fri) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775) [Link] (3 responses)

I see what you did there.

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Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 12:47 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm now tempted to write an SCP entry to get the scp protocol into the Foundation as an SCP object itself. With the backtick-execution semantics, it would hardly need any tweaking at all to make it horrible and creepy enough... :)

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 18:38 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe as a -J entry.

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 9, 2020 17:10 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

After it's deprecated it will be a thing that used to be a binary. Perhaps related to SCP-2602 (which used to be a library).