From b0d888155de2766647aca9429b67f42758403887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alfredo Deza Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:47:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] document ssh detection Signed-off-by: Alfredo Deza --- README.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 6b4794a..622c926 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -126,3 +126,13 @@ Note that functions to be executed remotely **cannot** accept objects as arguments, just normal Python data structures, like tuples, lists and dictionaries. Also safe to use are ints and strings. + +Automatic detection for remote connections +------------------------------------------ +There is automatic detection for the need to connect remotely (via SSH) or not +that it is infered by the hostname of the current host (vs. the host that is +connecting to). + +If the local host has the same as the remote hostname, a local connection (via +`Popen`) will be opened and that will be used instead of `ssh`, and avoiding +the issues of being able to ssh into the same host. -- 2.47.3