[plt-scheme] Re: Remove File Operations

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri May 1 20:54:30 EDT 2009

On May  2, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > It makes it possible to run ssh as a subprocess, and feed it the
> > password (that the scheme code will obtain in some way).
> 
> but can't I do that already using PLT-Scheme, running ssh as a
> subprocess?

No -- ssh doesn't read the password as a normal input (try it, you'll
see).  ssh wrapped in socat does though.

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