> 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

> 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. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989578