On 10/12/2012 07:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
How so? What's wrong with what behaves like a named pipe? That is, why does scp need to seek instead of just reading the contents?
Whether it seeks or not is rather irrelevant to the question of whether or not it is unix-like behavior. seek() is quite normal behavior.
All the same, I keep my keys in an encrypted volume because they grant me access to my customer's systems. The idea of writing them to a filesystem that's not encrypted is just creepy.
Sure, but who else can open your /dev/fd/##'s?
I'm not sure what you're talking about, since that's not what zsh does. When you use "=(command)", zsh will run "command" with its output directed to a file in /tmp. The path to that file will be substituted where "=()" was used in the command-line.