> it can't depend on every ssh implementation understanding this
Indeed, from a comment[1] above:
> We discussed that, but it wasn't clear that doing so was portable. It works for OpenSSH. It doesn't for PuTTY. We don't know what other implementations people might have as `ssh` on their systems.
Indeed, from a comment[1] above:
> We discussed that, but it wasn't clear that doing so was portable. It works for OpenSSH. It doesn't for PuTTY. We don't know what other implementations people might have as `ssh` on their systems.
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989578