Preventing temporary files?

[Joseph Bruni]

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On Mar 9, 2005, at 7:04 PM, David Shaw wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:22:14AM +0200, Ilkka Huotari wrote:
>> I have the PHP side working. The thing that I have problems with is 
>> this:
>>
>> gpg: failed to create temporary file
>> `bin/gpg/.#lk0x80eb83c.nd2.2253': Permissio n denied
>
> That's a lock file.  It is needed to prevent more than one instance of
> GnuPG from modifying keyrings (which would naturally corrupt them).
> If you can guarantee this exclusion outside of GnuPG, then see the
> --lock-never option in the manual.
>
> David


Hi David,

Just out of curiosity, why not obtain an OS lock on the keyring files 
themselves such as that provided by flock() for the BSD unixes and 
lockf() for the SVR4 unixes? Was this for portability reasons?

Joe
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