scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes

Dan Harkless cygwin-list21@harkless.org
Sat Jun 24 01:26:44 GMT 2023


On 6/23/2023 5:19 PM, Chris Roehrig via Cygwin wrote:
> No worries; I imagine most people don't run sshd on cygwin.

Hmm, I'd generally think the opposite, at least for users coming from 
more UNIXey / Linuxey backgrounds.

> It looks to
> me like the issue involves i/o between sshd and its sub-processes on cygwin.
>
> Is anyone else able to successfully scp large files (>64KB) to cygwin as
> the remote receiving end (with the latest cygwin)?

Yes, with all Cygwin64 updates, I was able to scp a file of a few MB 
from Linux to Windows 10 with no issues.  I also tried your 'cat' 
version, and that worked fine too.

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