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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by myself248 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:28AM (#34195481)
I think it does, insofaras OSs feel free to just fuck with the contents of files they think are text, replacing newlines willy-nilly. Files not identified as text are safe from such automatic tampering.
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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by MayeulC on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:36AM (#34195540)
I've never seen this behaviour at an OS level. This seems like an editor issue, and binary files are not exempt from being messed up by a slightly incompatible editor, far from it.
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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by nemetroid on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:48AM (#34195604)
Perhaps you have been spared from writing code for Windows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/refe...

> In text mode, carriage return-line feed (CRLF) combinations are translated into single line feed (LF) characters on input, and LF characters are translated to CRLF combinations on output.

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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:59AM (#34195689)
Is there a reason I should blame the OS specifically and not the C runtime?
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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by nemetroid on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:03AM (#34196082)
I guess it depends on how specific you want to be. The Windows C runtime is a component of the OS.
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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:49AM (#34196384)
Well you're not really supposed to use the OS copy of msvcrt.dll
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Re:Why does my SSH private key still work after changing som... by tedunangst on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:03PM (#34198927)
Yes, library functions do what you ask them to do.
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