Re: Small patch to enable use of gpg-agent with pgg

[Simon Josefsson]

Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>>  Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This is very error prone.  As I wrote before on emacs-devel: there are
>> certain situations in which using the agent will fail -- even if it is
>> available: for example: on an text console running the standard
>> pin-entry program (which uses curses) from within emacs won't work.
>> That's why I think this option should be explicitly enabled by the user.
>
>> Another problem is, that checking for $GPG_AGENT_INFO is not
>> sufficient, the environment variable will stay set, even is the agent
>> was killed.
>
> That looks a bit complicated for me.  Is there a choice of utilizing
> --status-fd output?  That is, query a user for his passphrase only when
> gpg requested (i.e. we see NEED_PASSPHRASE)
>
> Though I know that this solution involves some coding to make use of
> asynchronous process, I expect that it is not so hard to implement.

Hi Daiki!  I like this.  Would you like to implement it?