Exit status and failed decryption of session key

[Frank Tobin]

Florian Weimer, at 20:52 +0200 on 22 Apr 2000, wrote:

> 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. :-/

The question is what does "successful" mean?  There can be warnings, total
failure, partial success/failure, etc.  Your wrapper really should try to
do some processing and parse status-fd.

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