The scp command in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 produces empty files when the same file is overwritten

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • In RHEL8 we were sometimes overriding the same file using scp $LOCAL_PATH $HOSTNAME:$LOCAL_PATH and it simply preserved the file. This behaviour changed in RHEL9 and now the files are being emptied.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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