What magic did openssh do to handle programs like VIM?

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:10:03AM -0500, you wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to write my own remote shell program,
> > 
> > *Why*?
> 
> Sometimes, people like to learn things.

Right. Before I started porting OpenSSH all those years ago I wrote a
rsh-over-TLS remote shell program that is thankfully lost to history.
There is no way I would have been able to meaningfully work on sshd
without that experience.

-d