{
    if (using_sftp) {
	/*
	 * Find out whether the target filespec is in fact a
	 * directory.
	 */
	struct fxp_attrs attrs;

	if (!fxp_init()) {
	    tell_user(stderr, "unable to initialise SFTP: %s", fxp_error());
	    errs++;
	    return 1;
	}

	if (!fxp_stat(target, &attrs) ||
	    !(attrs.flags & SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_PERMISSIONS))
	    scp_sftp_targetisdir = 0;
	else
	    scp_sftp_targetisdir = (attrs.permissions & 0040000) != 0;

 * right at the start, whereas scp_sink_init is called to
 * initialise every level of recursion in the protocol.
 */
int scp_sink_setup(char *source, int preserve, int recursive)
{
    if (using_sftp) {
	char *newsource;

	if (!fxp_init()) {
	    tell_user(stderr, "unable to initialise SFTP: %s", fxp_error());
	    errs++;
	    return 1;
	}
	/*
	 * It's possible that the source string we've been given
	 * contains a wildcard. If so, we must split the directory
	 * away from the wildcard itself (throwing an error if any
	 * wildcardness comes before the final slash) and arrange
	 * things so that a dirstack entry will be set up.
	 */