command_not_found_handle bash mechanism only passes single arg

Binary package hint: bash

When bash encounters a command that it can't locate, it calls the function command_not_found_handle if available, which then usually calls the python command-not-found script.

But bash only passes the first argument from the command line on to command_not_found_handle. This is OK for the command-not-found script, but makes it difficult to extend.

For example, I have modified /etc/bash.bashrc to run this:
/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- $1 || ssh $@ && return 0 || return 75

This allows me to type in the name of a machine I'd like to ssh to. As long as it isn't also the name of a program, then this works (and is very handy). But I can't do something like this:
parcher@myhost:$ remotehost -l archer
All that is passed to the command_not_found_handle function is 'remotehost', so the ssh never sees the other arguments.

Just to be clear: this is an issue with what is being passed to the command_not_found_handle function, and not an issue with what happens inside the function.