do_plaintext() error message

[Hunter, Bryan]

Thank you Steve.

It was the "-" at the end of the command line that caused the error message.
Removing it also increased the size of the output file considerably (17KB)
so I presume that there was some corruption.

This error message was briefly mentioned 5 years ago by Werner Koch and
Matthew Skala.  Is there some place where this issue should be further
addressed?

Thanks for your help,
Bryan Hunter

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Butler [mailto:sbutler@fchn.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:37 AM
To: 'Kyle Hasselbacher'
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: RE: do_plaintext() error message


It does appear that time is a built-in and is not affected by any IO
redirection on the command line.

Testing on my box did not elicit the error.  I did

time tar -cf - [directory] | gpg --no-batch --always-trust --recipient
[myself] --output web.pgp --encrypt
File `web.pgp' exists. Overwrite (y/N)? y
    2.99s real     0.94s user     0.02s system


Note:  --always-trust is needed solely due to the way we handle keys.




-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Hasselbacher [mailto:kyle-list-gpguser@toehold.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:02 PM
To: Steve Butler
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: do_plaintext() error message


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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Steve Butler wrote:
>Perhaps I'm all wet, but wouldn't the output from both tar and time be sent
>via the pipe to gpg?  Somehow I think there will be problems since tar is
>being told to send output via STDOUT and time writes by default to STDOUT.
>
>Try it without time.

Hmmm.  Not on my system.

kyle@longshot ~ $ time echo hello
hello

real	0m0.000s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s
kyle@longshot ~ $ time echo hello > /dev/null

real	0m0.000s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s
kyle@longshot ~ $ uname -a
Linux longshot 2.4.20 #1 Thu Nov 28 20:28:40 CST 2002 i686 unknown
kyle@longshot ~ $ 

I'm not sure how time writes its output, but it's not stdout.  It's a shell
built-in, so maybe it writes straight to the terminal.
- -- 
Kyle Hasselbacher
kyle@toehold.com
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