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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-12-07 15:56:49 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  7 Dec 2012 12:46, vincent at vinc17.net said:
> > 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.
> 
> Well Mutt reads from gpg and if that read stucks gpg can't do much.

When it receives a SIGINT, gpg should quit immediately (possibly
after some clean-up). The problem is that gpg was still running.

> I probably read your report not close enough. My question should
> have been, whether you was able to replicate the problem with gpg
> called on the commandline.

I don't know. The problem occurs too rarely to know whether I get
the same behavior on the command line.

The fact that gpg has a zombie child means at least a problem with gpg.

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