On 2018-10-21, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is an oversimplification. It's an SSH thing to the extent that the > SSH protocol defines that command execution is done by passing a single > command string, the ssh client specifically joins its arguments using > spaces in order to send them to the server, That behavior was inherited straight from rsh(1), which was really just a wrapper around rcmd(3). This whole thing goes back to 1982. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/usr.bin/rsh/rsh.c?view=log Nowadays people may not be aware that one of the selling points of ssh was that it was a drop-in replacement for rsh/rlogin/rcp. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
