Latest libgpg-error breaks gpg-agent and more

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:50, cmt at burggraben.net said:

> after the update to libgpg-error 1.25 (from 1.24) gpg-agent (from gnupg
> 2.1.15) aborts with core in npth ("Assertion failed: (res == 0), function

Better an assertion failure than the hangs we have seen before ;-).

> uninitialised. Some more investigation revealed that one would only
> need to move the npth_init() call in agent/gpg-agent.c main() in front 

It is all caused by broken OS with weird semantics of unnamed
semaphores.  The fixes for that unfortunately broke things on Linux.
Delaying npth_init is a bit tricky and I would like to avoid it but
there are those OS X folks ...

> Can we get gnupg 2.1.16 "real soon now"?

I did a gpgme release today and 2.1.16 will be the next thing.  Maybe
tomorrow.  There is only that One Last Feature(tm) I want to get in.  We
will do a release in the current state with some open bugs but given
that 2.1.15 is already 3 months old it is better than no release.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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