[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#842015: Bug#842015: gnupg: gpg --no-tty freezes when there is no X display

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Oct 26 13:38:18 UTC 2016


On Tue 2016-10-25 19:50:05 -0400, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> This is not specific to Emacs. There's the same problem with
> "gpg -d file.gpg" instead of "emacs file.gpg".
>
> I suppose that if gpg communicates its $DISPLAY and $GPG_TTY to
> gpg-agent, gpg-agent should be able to know what to do.

gpg does communicate this info to gpg-agent (and several other
environment variables as well).

            --dkg



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