Exit status and failed decryption of session key

[Florian Weimer]

Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> writes:

> There are so many issues that can happen as the result of an OpenPGP
> operation.  One could verify a signature, but not have the public key or a
> web-of-trust line, or one could have the issue you talked aobut,
> etc.  What you should really look into is parsing the output of the option
> "status-fd", which has information described in GnuPG's DETAILS file.

Yes, but status-fd is remarkably terse when it's creating some OpenPGP
messages.  May I assume that in this case, the exit status indicates
whether the operation was successfull or not?  I certainly do not want
to parse standard error output. :-/

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