corrupt trustdb caused by commandline?

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On Thu, 25 May 2006, David Shaw wrote:

>>  * why was closing stdout causing gpg to have problems?
>
> It's not a GPG thing, specifically.  Closing stdout (or stderr) is
> actually a pretty dangerous thing to do on *any* program that opens
> files and also uses printf.
...
> If the goal is to squish stdout, you should redirect stdout to
> /dev/null rather than closing it outright.
>
>>  * will this patch be incorporated into production?
>
> Yes.  Already has, actually.
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this is being used in part of a script that just tests for return status, 
and any output is undesired. would you recommend changing the script to 
redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null? or should it be ok, now, to just 
close stdout/stderr? or is there a better way altogether that i'm 
overlooking?

thanks...


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