"--passphrase-fd n" not working

[Florian Weimer]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:00:55 +0200, Florian Weimer said:
>
>> 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 thought about this but it is not Posix (afaik) and does not work
> under Winodws.  Yes, yes, I could interpret those filenames in gpg but
> this is not a clean solution.

And inventing new syntax for an old problem is a cleaner solution?  I
think it's confusing.