Re: Copying empty files with scp

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 16:13:33 CET Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> It is unclear from the documentation how to proceed with
> SSH_SCP_REQUEST_NEWFILE when ssh_scp_request_get_size() returns 0, i.e
> downloading an empty file.
> 
> From trial and error I found that the client has to call
> ssh_scp_accept_request() and ssh_scp_read() at least once, even though
> there is no data to copy. If we don't do this, we get an error "called
> under invalid state" upon the next ssh_scp_pull_request().
> 
> Is this expected?

I dunno, the scp protocol is horror and should be deprecated everywhere! You 
should use sftp.