Restarting gpg-agent

[Benjamin Donnachie]

On 15 March 2010 16:54, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> For years gpg-agent is able to test whether it is already
> running, just call gpg-agent and don't pass the --daemon option:

This is what I use the fall back as part of MacGPG2:

(* start-gpg-agent
   Part of the MacGPG2 project - http://macgpg2.sourceforge.net

   Released under v3 of the GPL
 *)

-- Sleep for two seconds.

delay 2

-- Try to contact gpg-agent

set gpgAgentRunning to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent >&
/dev/null; echo $?; exit 0"

-- If that fails, look for env file.

if gpgAgentRunning > 0 then
	set gpgAgentRunning to do shell script "[ -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info ]
&& (source $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && export GPG_AGENT_INFO &&
/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent >& /dev/null) ; echo $?; exit 0"
end if

-- If that also fails, start a new copy of gpg-agent

if gpgAgentRunning > 0 then
	do shell script "/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent --daemon
--use-standard-socket --write-env > /dev/null"
end if


Should be easy to understand and implement in another scripting language.

Ben