[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850656: Bug#850656: gnupg-agent: Please allow config to specify fast RNG

[Ian Jackson]

Werner Koch writes ("Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850656: gnupg-agent: Please allow config to specify fast RNG"):
> Obviously we had the same problem in the test suite and thus we
> implemented an ugly hack to pass additional options via the
> --agent-program option:
> 
>       else if ((s=strchr (agent_program, '|')) && s[1] == '-' && s[2]=='-')

Oh!  Well that would certainly remove one lot of annoyance.  Thanks
for the info.  Can this be documented, please ?  Ideally in addition
to the change I requested here, to allow the config to specify.

If nothing else someone may in theory be confused when they make an
agent program whose name contains `|' for some mad reason...

> We use use it like this in the test suite:

Thanks.

> For help with using gnupg I would kindly suggest to mail to gnupg-devel
> and not to open a bug for each question.

Well, yes.  However, this bug report is not a question.  It is a
request for a change in behaviour.

Thanks,
Ian.

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