PuTTY bug pscp-memory-leak

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summary: PSCP ballooning on large files
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
present-in: 0.52
fixed-in: 2002-03-02 0.53 (0.54) (0.55) (0.56) (0.57) (0.58) (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62)

We've had numerous reports of a memory leak in PSCP 0.52 such that its memory consumption would grow with the quantity of data transferred.

A big memory leak in sftp.c was fixed 2002-03-01. This would show up in PSCP when it chose to use the SFTP backend (most often with SSH-2 connections).

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-11-16 15:27:00 +0000)