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dfhgb
9y ago
of course you can make a pipe and spawn a process that does the translation. why's nobody doing that? because linux is a cargo cult and nobody does the sane thing until it is provided by the infrastructure. because of fork not mixing w
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dfhgb
9y ago
the real advantage is that you can pass arround your encrypted connection as a file descriptor. so when you add encryption to some service, you do not have to manually replace all calls to read/write by libssl library functions but ins