Howto --passphrase-fd

[Johan Wevers]

Roelf Renkema wrote:

> And yes I read the man and pdf file, but I'm not
> sure what file discriptor means. I thought it to be
> a filename containing the password?

No, certainly not. Are you famaliar with C? A fd is something you get back
when you use the system call open() on a file. It is even more low-level
than the usual C FILE*. A description can be found in K&R2 chapter 8.
If you don't have it or something similar, I have K&R2 as html and pdf
file available, mail me when you want a copy.

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