On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 11:04 Damien Miller <d...@mindrot.org wrote: > ok djm > > why does mosh depend on the stderr of a proxycommand? >
Based on my extensive (ie 5 minute) study of the code, it's turtles all the way down. mosh invokes ssh with a proxycommand that invokes mosh again in a different mode, my guess is so that it can get access to the resolved hostname, and I further guess is passes that info back via stderr. >