It is possible for SSH_FXP_CLOSE requests to fail. This can happen if the
server buffers writes and an error occurs flushing the data to disk while
processing the SSH_FXP_CLOSE request. If the close fails, sftp_put_file now
returns an error as well.
Formerly PuTTY's SFTP code would transmit (or buffer) a megabyte of data
before even starting to look for acknowledgements, but wouldn't allow
there to be more than a megabyte of unacknowledged data at a time. Now,
instead, it pays attention to whether the transmit path is blocked, and
transmits iff it isn't.
This should mean that SFTP goes faster over long fat pipes, and also
doesn't end up buffering so much over thin ones.
I practice, I tend to run into other performance limitations (such as
TCP or SSH-2 windows) before this enhancement looks particularly good,
but with an artificial lag of 250 ms on the loopback interface this
patch almost doubles my upload speed, so I think it's worthwhile.
Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
having the right constness).
Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
- the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
- I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
- I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
- stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
I think I have to consider this to be a separate but related change to
the wishlist item 'pscp-filemodes'; that was written before the Unix
port existed, and referred to the ability to configure the permissions
used for files copied from Windows to Unix - which is still not done.
[originally from svn r9260]
sftp.c, and psftp.c now uses that instead of going it alone. Should
in principle be easily installed in PSCP as well, but I haven't done
it yet; also it only handles downloads, not uploads, and finally it
doesn't yet properly calculate the correct number of parallel
requests to queue. Still, it's a start, and in my own tests it
seemed to perform as expected (download speed suddenly became
roughly what you'd expect from the available bandwidth, and
decreased by roughly the expected number of round-trip times).
[originally from svn r3468]
has been split into a send half and a receive half, so that callers
can set several requests in motion at a time and deal with the
responses in whatever order they arrive.
[originally from svn r3318]
scp1 if it can't. Currently not very tested - I checked it in as
soon as it completed a successful recursive copy in both directions.
Also, one known bug: you can't specify a remote wildcard, because by
the nature of SFTP we'll need to implement the wildcard engine on
the client side. I do intend to do this (and use the same wildcard
engine in PSFTP as well) but I haven't got round to it yet.
[originally from svn r1208]
Tim Kosse
Ben Harris
Simon Tatham