[ic] [PATCH] [RFC] PGP hard failure workaround

Jon Jensen interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Jun 6 17:26:00 2003


On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, John Beima wrote:

> I have no idea why gngpg would "lock" a key when it is encrypting. It even
> creates a lock file for it, in the .gnugpg folder where the key is stored.

Looking at "man gpg", there's a --lock-never option, which is probably 
dangerous, but if you set the immutable bit (or the equivalent for your 
system) on the files that take locks, secring.gpg, pubring.gpg, and 
trustdb.gpg, I bet it'd be ok. Untested, of course. :)

Jon