[pgpenvelope-users] Bug/Feature report for PGPEnvelope

[L. S. <ra...@qu...>]

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Hi Frank,

One annoyance I have found with PGPEnvelope/GnuPG is this:

When GnuPG encounters a .lock file on the keyrings or trustdb, it will sit
and wait for the lock to be released.

Occasionally, the lock file becomes stale when procmail hiccups, or
something else occurs to interrupt GnuPG.

The next invocation of GnuPG will cause it to sit and wait indefinately
(although it gives the message "Waiting for lock file .. probably
dead".) I am not quoting that exactly; I will cut/paste it next time I see
it. When I see this, I then know I have to manually remove the lock file.

However, this isn't visible when GnuPG is being called by PGPEnvelope.

Can we have PGPEnvelope look for GnuPG's lock file error messages, and
terminate with an informative message telling the user to check the lock
file and clear it if necessary?


- --Len.

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L. Sassaman

System Administrator                |  "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant               |   Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603                      |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |              --Joe Diffie



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