--passphrase-fd with a pipe handle under Win32

[Timo Schulz]

On Sun Apr 22 2001, Maxim Masiutin wrote:

>   Thank you for the hint! The problem, however, is in interprocess
>   communication under Win32. It seems that GnuPG is unable to read
>   from a pipe handle passed as a numeric value. Maybe that was because

Hmm, the last time I checked this it worked perfectly. Did you
miss anything?


>   mingw32 adds some unwanted wrappers to operations with handles? I
>   should continue the investigation. I took a look into GnuPG source
>   code but it seems to be all right there. I tried to download mingw32

No, MingW32 is only a cross compiler. It doesn't add any additional
wrappers. Cygwin is a W32 compiler that put a simple POSIX layer onto
the W32 API functions. (IIRC)


>   Although there was written that "authors of MUAs should consider to
>   use GPGME", I found no API reference inside gpgme-0.2.1 archive. Is
>   there any reference exist?

AFAIK there is no API reference yet. But you can use the files from
the tests directory to see how it works. GPGME is useful for any
application that uses GPG calls, I use it for WinPT which isn't a MUA.


Timo

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