Comments on 1.0.6d
David Shaw
dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Tue Mar 5 06:51:01 2002
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:53:10PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> As promised, here's are some comments about the latest snapshot.
> These are the "doesn't work right" comments. I'll do the "would be
> nice" list later :)
>
> I've started on fixes for #5, #8, #10, #13, and #15.
> 5) When revoking a local key signature (i.e. from 'lsign'), the
> revocation should be local as well to prevent possibly leaking
> information about the local signature.
> 8) V3 key revocations should not prompt for a revocation reason since
> V3 revocations do not use it anyway.
> 10) The keyserver stuff needs an "exec-path" or similar, as the user's
> path may be untrustworthy, and it is also difficult to use the
> keyserver stuff via cron or other non-login methods without it.
> 13) The command "gpg --export 0xz blah" causes BUG() to be called.
> 15) Compiler warning in util/:
> iobuf.c:1891: warning: static declaration for `fseeko' follows non-static
Ok, all these are fixed. #15 was particularly interesting - it turned
out to be an odd interaction between my libc headers and autoconf. It
wasn't the code at all.
David
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