Subject: comments on draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-07.txt

From: "Richard Whalen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:10 -0500

4.1 Is it ok for a client to use 'version-select' after sending '4' as a requested version number?  Should this state a minimum value of '3'?

4.5 "seperated" should be "separated" (multiple occurrences). In the example of a 'comma-seperated-versions' string the terminating quote after "3,6,7 is missing.  The sentence that follows the example is awkward "Versions defined by are:"  How about "The defined versions are:"

6.9 in the discussion of the SPARSE flag, "Some server may store..." should be "Some servers may store..."

6.10 Can an FSETSTAT operation with the text hint be used to convert a text file handle to a binary file handle if the value is set to one of the binary value types or is the value ignored and this is always a request to convert a binary file handle to a text file handle?

7.4 Should there be a way to specify that a created directory should be case sensitive or case insensitive?  If it is not specified, which is it?  The implication based upon 6.9 is that it should be case sensitive, but what if that is not the default/possible for the file system?

7.7 "The SSH_FXP_LINK request creates a symbolic link..." strike "symbolic" as it can create either a symbolic or hard link.

7.8.1 "A client that use REALPATH(".", "") and treats..." should be "A client that uses REALPATH(".", "") and treats..."

9.2 "The total number of unused bytes availabe on the device..." should be "The total number of unused bytes available on the device..."

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Richard Whalen
Process Software