error return code when no agent available
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Nov 30 16:17:36 CET 2017
On Thu 2017-11-30 15:57:42 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> The return codes from gpg have no specific meaning. For scripting you
> need to look at the status lines. GPGME entirely ignores the return
> codes.
Perhaps we could invest the return codes with some specific meaning?
There are many scenarios in UNIX where return codes are expected to be 0
when an standard operation succeeds. It's unusual to not folow that
convention.
--dkg
More information about the Gnupg-devel
mailing list