[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#841143: False assumptions about nPth (was: Bug#841143: Suspected race in gpg1 to gpg2 conversion or agent startup [and 1 more messages])

[Werner Koch]

On Sun,  8 Jan 2017 23:46, ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk said:

> gpg-agent is AIUI the main program which handles key material.  We
> cannot afford for it to be afflicted by threading bugs.

Please point out a single threading bug in gpg-agent or any other part
of GnuPG.  But before you point me to your patches please learn about
nPth (and its predecessor GNU Pth) and understand why we are not using
Posix threads directly.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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