[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#841143: Bug#841143: gnupg2 races and hangs

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  5 Jan 2017 18:25, ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk said:

> I also tried to look at the gnupg2 source code.  After reading it I
> was not surprised the agent startup is racy, and I was very
> discouraged from trying to debug it.  Is there a design document or
> comment somewhere which I missed, which explains how the startup

Please explain why starting gpg-agent is racy.  We are doing this for
many years w/o problems.  The code is well commented.  Start at
gnupg/g10/call-agent.c:start_agent.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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