Read --status-fd with Expect

[Fraser Tweedale]

Hi Jack,

The argument to --status-fd must be an open file descriptor.  Not
sure of a way to open a raw file descriptor in expect, but you could
use mkfifo(1) and the --status-file argument instead, I think.

Regards,

Fraser

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:14:27AM -0700, Jack Bates wrote:
> I am working on non-interactively creating a new subkey, with Expect and 
> --status-fd, but I haven't figured out how to read from --status-fd with 
> Expect:
> 
> $ expect -c '
> spawn gpg --status-fd 3 --edit-key 
> CF11451A9BF0C50DA6B17B5926FB09F7C0D5639E addkey;
> interact'
> spawn gpg --status-fd 3 --edit-key 
> CF11451A9BF0C50DA6B17B5926FB09F7C0D5639E addkey
> gpg: fatal: can't open fd 3 for status output: Bad file descriptor
> secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/0
> $
> 
> Has anyone else figured out how to read from --status-fd with Expect?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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