"--passphrase-fd n" not working

[David Champion]

On 2001.10.04, in <878zerwr60.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
	"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> pd <pd4953@myrealbox.com> writes:
>=20
> >         --enable-special-filenames
> > 		 This  options	enables a mode in which filenames
> > 		 of the form -&n, where n is a non-negative deci=C2=AD
> > 		 mal  number,  refer to the file descriptor n and
> > 		 not to a file with that name.
>=20
> Hmm, I wonder why this note is necessary.  Can't you use /dev/fd/n
> instead (and the same magic in GnuPG to make it work)?

I believe the reason was that not everybody has a /dev/fd tree that
translates the fd table to the vfs. If it's not the reason, we could
promote it.

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