bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection

[Jim Porter]

On 5/6/2024 11:28 AM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Yes, but this breaks in non-obvious ways if Eshell's "cp" implementation 
> falls back to the external program. For example, today:
>
>    ~ $ cp file /ssh:remote:~/file    # copies "file" to a remote host
>    ~ $ cp -b file /ssh:remote:~/file
>    /usr/bin/cp: cannot create regular file '/ssh:remote:~/file': No such
>    file or directory
>
> Or the second line might work if you get unlucky, or pass --parents, or...

By "work" here, I mean, "cp will copy the file, but to a place you 
likely didn't intend."