libssh2_scp_send64

Section: libssh2 manual (3)
Updated: 17 Apr 2010
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NAME

libssh2_scp_send64 - Send a file via SCP

SYNOPSIS

#include <libssh2.h>

LIBSSH2_CHANNEL *
libssh2_scp_send64(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *path, int mode,
                   libssh2_uint64_t size, time_t mtime, time_t atime);

DESCRIPTION

session - Session instance as returned by libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

path - Full path and filename of file to transfer to. That is the remote file name.

mode - File access mode to create file with

size - Size of file being transmitted (Must be known ahead of time). Note that this needs to be passed on as variable type libssh2_uint64_t. This type is 64 bit on modern operating systems and compilers.

mtime - mtime to assign to file being created

atime - atime to assign to file being created (Set this and mtime to zero to instruct remote host to use current time).

Send a file to the remote host via SCP.

RETURN VALUE

Pointer to a newly allocated LIBSSH2_CHANNEL instance, or NULL on errors.

ERRORS

LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC - An internal memory allocation call failed.

LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket.

LIBSSH2_ERROR_SCP_PROTOCOL -

LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN - Marked for non-blocking I/O but the call would block.

AVAILABILITY

This function was added in libssh2 1.2.6 and is meant to replace the former libssh2_scp_send_ex(3) function.