argv[0] => host feature considered harmful

[Jos Backus]

OpenSSH still has this feature, SSH-1.2.27 no longer has it.  Admittedly it
can be useful sometimes, even though I'd prefer this to be done using a
trivial shell wrapper, which would be the UNIX way of doing things.

Not being able to call OpenSSH's ssh by another name (say ``ssh1'') can get in
the way when having to maintain two versions of ssh in parallel because the
``ssh -> ssh1'' symlink trick doesn't work (ssh gives a ``bad hostname: ssh1''
error message).

How do others feel about at least conditionalizing this feature? I can come up
with a patch if needed.

Thanks,
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