Using GnuPG on Windows/Linux
David Shaw
dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri May 16 05:01:02 2003
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:56:16PM +0200, Johan Parin wrote:
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> David Shaw writes:
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> David> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:16:44AM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:
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> >> Why is locking impossible on FAT32?
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> David> It's not impossible technically, but the locking scheme GnuPG
> David> uses at the moment isn't compatible with a FAT filesystem.
> David> It uses link().
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> So what does the Windows version of GnuPG do, if like me one has their
> homedir on a FAT32 partition?
I believe it doesn't lock at all.
David
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