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jaap-jan 03e902a2d2 Colour the host's file rows by what their mode says
ci / build and test (push) Failing after 2s
The remote pane's NAME column was blue for a directory and plain for everything
else, and the PERMS column was faint whatever it said. Two colours now come off
the mode, split across those two columns on purpose: NAME says what a row is,
so a file with an execute bit is green there, and PERMS says what is notable
about how it is set, so a file anyone may write to is amber over the characters
that actually say so. Because the two never compete for one TextBlock, a
world-writable executable shows both facts instead of one winning an argument.
No new blue is spent, which is what App.axaml asks for: it reserves blue for a
directory, a distinct scope, and calls it deliberately rare.

Both are files only, and each exclusion is a wrong answer avoided rather than a
case not got to. Every symbolic link is lrwxrwxrwx by convention and its mode
governs nothing — what may be written is the target, whose mode an lstat
listing never fetched — so amber there would fire on every link on the host. A
world-writable directory is /tmp, made safe by a sticky bit PosixMode does not
render, and warning about it would be warning about the half of the mode that
is on screen while the half that answers the warning is not. And the execute
bit on a directory means "may be searched", which is true of very nearly every
directory a host has, so green there would paint the whole pane and mark
nothing.

The two questions read back the string PosixMode wrote rather than carrying its
nine booleans through SftpEntry as well. That is the point rather than a
shortcut: two representations of one fact is how a row ends up coloured for a
bit the column beside it does not show. A mode of the wrong length answers
false rather than throwing, since these decide a colour and a listing is not
worth failing over one.

The amber is Warn rather than WarnText, which is the muted amber a warning card
writes its sentences in. At 9.5px against TextFaint that one is a shade rather
than a signal, and a marker nobody notices is the same as no marker.

The local pane is untouched, on the grounds it already gives for having no
PERMS column at all: a POSIX mode is not a fact about a file on Windows, and
colouring one there would invent exactly what the column declines to print.

Twenty cases in RemotePathTests, which needs no container — the execute bit in
any of the three triples rather than only the owner's, the others-write bit
alone, a mode of the wrong length, and the file-only rule for both questions
from all three kinds. dotnet format is clean and the app and layout suites pass
at 109 and 35.
2026-07-31 12:17:56 +02:00
jaap-jan 04faef6597 Move files to and from a host over SFTP
M2's file transfer, built bottom-up: an SFTP session on the SSH layer, a
transfer queue in a project of its own, and the two-pane browser the design
asked for replacing the screen that said it did not exist. Remote listings
carry names, sizes, modification times and a real drwxr-xr-x — nothing in this
repository could render a POSIX mode before — and the queue moves one file at a
time with progress, throughput and resume.

The design import assumed this would be an SFTP subsystem channel on
ISshConnection, beside the shell on a transport that is already up. SSH.NET
does not offer that: SftpClient derives from BaseClient and owns its own
transport, and there is no supported way to hand it an SshClient's session. So
file transfer opens a second authenticated connection, and it is named for
that rather than dressed up as a channel — OpenSftpAsync is on
ISftpSessionFactory, not on a connection. The difference is visible to a user:
the host records a second login, and a host whose password is typed each time
asks for it again on this screen. It goes through the same host key gate, the
same pin and the same two refusals a shell does, so a fingerprint approved for
a terminal is approved here and one approved here reaches the other machines
with the next sync. docs/design-import-gaps.md is corrected, and marked as the
one row where what shipped differs from what it predicted.

Nothing is written at its final name until it is complete. Every transfer goes
to a .dodossh-part file beside its destination and is renamed into place at the
end, so an interrupted transfer can never be mistaken for a finished one —
which matters most for what this screen is actually for, which is copying a
build artefact onto a server and then running it. A destination that already
exists is refused outright rather than overwritten: the queue has no way to
ask, and silently replacing a file somebody's process is serving is the worse
of the two failures. The remote pane has DELETE and MKDIR so that refusal is
not a dead end. A test against the container pins the assumption underneath all
of this — that SFTP's rename does not clobber.

Resume works within a run of the application and not across a restart, and the
limit is deliberate rather than unfinished. Nothing records which source wrote
a part file, and resuming one on the strength of its name matching is how a
corrupt artefact gets delivered with nothing reporting a failure; a part file
found at startup is started over. Making it survive a restart needs the
preferences store this client still has not got. The offset a resume starts at
is the part file's own length rather than the transfer's recorded progress: a
cancellation can land between a write completing and the counter moving, and
only one of those two is a fact about the bytes that are there.

The queue and its connection outlive a lock, as shells do. LockAsync already
argues that locking must not destroy work in flight — it is what somebody does
when they walk away from the machine, which is exactly when a long transfer is
most likely to be running — so TransfersViewModel is created once and the vault
is attached on unlock and detached on lock. What locking takes is the host
list, and it has to: those rows carry decrypted secrets.

DodoSSH.Client.Transfer is a new project rather than more of Client.Ssh. The
two answer different questions — one is about reaching a host, the other about
moving bytes and what to do when moving them stops halfway — and this is the
only client project that deliberately touches the local filesystem.

Three defects the tests found, none of which review would have. SftpPath.Name
answered an empty string for the root. NavigateRemoteAsync wrapped itself in
the busy guard, so navigating from inside another command did nothing at all
and the remote pane simply stayed empty after connecting, with no failure
anywhere to explain it. And opening an SFTP session per test made two
handshakes per test — this client learns a host key by being refused — which
pushed the SSH assembly past sshd's MaxStartups and failed a different few
unrelated tests each run; the session is shared through the fixture now, with
the reason written where the next person will hit it.

1004 tests green across 18 projects, 24 of them new: the SFTP subsystem against
the OpenSSH container, the queue against a real temporary directory and a fake
host, and three more layout measurements because a screen this window has never
laid out is a screen never checked.

Not verified: the screen has not been looked at running. The layout harness
measures it at the window's minimum in three shapes, which is the class of
defect that has shipped here before, but reaching it in the application needs
the compose stack, the migrations, the API and a browser sign-in. What is still
absent — the status bar's transfer count, dragging between the panes,
transferring a directory, and sftp over a bastion — is in
docs/design-import-gaps.md.
2026-07-31 11:07:29 +02:00