strange limitation on rcmd()

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Mon Jul 10 17:51:09 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:47:33AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> What I remain upset about, though, is that the rcmdsh(), which is used by 
> rcmd() ignores the fd2p parameter making it impossible to capture the 
> remote's stderr...

Well, it's probably worth send-pr'ing it.

I'd first test whether rsh itself forwards stderr properly. Maybe there's
some underlying reason why rcmdsh doesn't have an fd2p argument.


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