On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 18:04, Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> That reminds me: is there any chance that OpenSSH’s SSH client
> code could be made into a library that other code could use as well?
> Having to spawn a child process is a bit annoying, and I would like
> to be able to use all of ssh(1)’s features.
There's a libssh.a built as part of the build process but making it
externally consumable with a stable API/ABI is not a goal. There are
other projects which do have that goal (eg libssh and libssh2, both of
which seem to be actively maintained).
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