Using SCP with files > 4 GB

["Mark Riordan" <mriordan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to enhance libssh to allow SCP transfer of files with sizes
that won't fit into 32 bits.

 

Here's what I propose to do:

 

Change ssh_scp_request_get_size() to return a 64-bit type rather than
size_t, which is 32 bits on some systems.

 

Either change ssh_scp_push_file(ssh_scp scp, const char *filename, size_t
size, int perms) so that the third parameter is a 64-bit type (compilers
should promote existing calls with 32-bit size to 64-bit size) or, less
preferably, introduce ssh_scp_push_file64 which takes a 64-bit size.

 

Do you have any feedback on this?

 

Thanks.

 

Mark R