Are there cases where gpg --verify will exit 0, even if verification failed?

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 01/14/2015 02:40 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2015-01-14 08:22:45 -0500, Sandeep Murthy wrote:
>> Exit codes in shells indicate problems relating to completion or
>> disruption of the child process invoked by a parent process.
>> 


..

> 
> the return value of the first --verify should be 0, but the second 
> --verify invocation should return 1, indicating that the signature 
> cannot be verified over the (different) contents of test2.txt

But iirc you will anyways have to check the status-fd for the validity
of the issuing key.

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