Re: more on flushing; Aap: Copied; /usr/bin/scp -C -p

Richard Boulton wrote:

> Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > scp takes some time to establish a connection.  Currently Aap starts a
> > new scp command for each file, unless it can figure out something to
> > copy multiple files at a time (going to the same directory).
> > 
> > I don't know if there is a way to run scp once and somehow make it copy
> > several files.  We also need to check failure properly, this this may be
> > a bit complicated.
> 
> If you can build up the list of files to be transferred in advance, scp 
> allows you to provide it with multiple files to be transferred.
> 
> Alternatively, you could look into how fcp (and fsh) work.
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/
> (I'm not sure if these require support at the other end, though.)
> If fcp is present on a system, aap could default to using this instead 
> of scp.

Interestingly, fcp is a Python program.  The distribution contains a lot
of things we don't need for Aap.  It looks like it would be possible to
use parts of fcp in Aap, to re-use a connection for several commands.
Then close the connection when Aap exits (avoid security issues).

Anybody who is interested into making this work?

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