[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#694635: gnupg: gpg froze with a zombie after a Ctrl-C (intr character)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-12-07 10:53:16 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:21, vincent at vinc17.net said:
> > last one, it was taking too long, so that I did a Ctrl-C. However
> > this didn't interrupt gpg. Other Ctrl-C's had no effect. The gpg
> > process was still running, with a zombie.
> 
> Why do you think this is a GnuPG problem?  If Mutt does not kill gpg
> properly, gpg can't do anything. 

Mutt doesn't do anything special. I just do a Ctrl-C in the terminal,
which has the effect to send a SIGINT to the foreground process group.
Moreover, the gpg process has a zombie child, and Mutt can't do
anything about that. It is up to the processes to wait for their own
children.

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