"--passphrase-fd n" not working

David Champion dgc@uchicago.edu
Thu Oct 4 16:36:01 2001


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. --=20 -D. dgc@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago