severity 494109 wishlist quit I guess this is a wishlist bug then: I wish the scp message were processed or discarded so as to make this experience less scary.
Oh, and thanks for the fantastic darcs system! Love the algebra. Cheers, --Barak. PS The exit value of the scp process can be used to flag success/failure, so there is no need to actually parse its stderr. $ scp /dev/null ~/tmp/null ; echo exit status: $? exit status: 0 $ scp /dev/nulll ~/tmp/null ; echo exit status: $? cp: cannot stat `/dev/nulll': No such file or directory exit status: 1 $ scp /etc/sudoers ~/tmp/null ; echo exit status: $? cp: cannot open `/etc/sudoers' for reading: Permission denied exit status: 1 $ scp ~/tmp/null ; echo exit status: $? usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file1 ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file2 exit status: 1 $ scp nonesuch.example.com:foo ~/tmp/null ; echo exit status: $? ssh: nonesuch.example.com: Name or service not known exit status: 1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]