Exit status and failed decryption of session key

[Florian Weimer]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> > Bug or feature?  It's quite annoying if you want to find out whether
> > decryption succeed by looking at the exit status.
> 
> Still in 1.0.1e ?

Yes. mainproc.c, lines 1162, 1163 read:

	if( rc != G10ERR_NOT_PROCESSED )
	    log_error(_("Can't check signature: %s\n"), g10_errstr(rc) );

log_error() increments the error count, and g10.c:g10_exit() does the
following:

    rc = rc? rc : log_get_errorcount(0)? 2 :
			g10_errors_seen? 1 : 0;

I don't think this can be easily changed.  

As a result, I ignore the exit status completely and rely solely on
the status fd output to decide whether decryption was successful or
not.

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