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

[Dan Browning]

* Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com> [2003-06-06 14:51]:
> 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. :)

Contrary to my expectations, neither the --lock-never, nor the 
--lock-multiple option alleviated the symptoms.  

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