--no-tty

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue May 21 09:16:01 2002


On Sun, 19 May 2002 05:54:49 -0400, Emil  said:

> Isn't --no-tty supposed to mean _NO_ tty whatsoever ?

No, it does only make sure never to write to the tty directly (i.e. it
does not open /dev/tty).  The tty may be required to ask for a
passphrase even when stderr has been redirected.  Avoiding all
informational output is done by redirecting stderr to /dev/zero

  Werner