Exit status and failed decryption of session key

[Florian Weimer]

Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> writes:

> > 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.

But there isn't anything to parse in this case!

deneb:~$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 | gpg --batch --output=- --status-fd=2 --encrypt -r fw@deneb > /dev/null
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
deneb:~$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 | gpg --batch --output=- --status-fd=2 --encrypt -r non-existing-id > /dev/null
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
gpg: non-existing-id: skipped: public key not found
gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: public key not found
deneb:~$ 

I think 1.0.1e is a bit better (it indicates successful encryption, at
least).

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