gpg-agent terminating on child termination

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Feb 11 11:29:43 CET 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:49:57 -0500, Tyson Whitehead said:

> I noticed that both gpg-agent and ssh-agent support forking off a command 
> with the appropriate environment variables set.  However, ssh-agent watches 
> the child process and terminates itself after it quits, while gpg-agent does 
> not seem to.

You are right.  I only use gpg-agent in the background so I forgot
about this.  Will put it ontop the TODO list.

Thanks for remining me,

  Werner




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