"Waiting for lock....." Solved.

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Apr 26 13:46:57 CEST 2007


On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:22, shavital at mac.com said:

> Now everything works fine, but I would still like to know how and why
> such a file 'trustdb.gpg.lock' was created in the first place.

This is to gain exclusive access to that file.  It is quite possible
that a second gpg process is running and trying to update trustdb at the
same time.  This would lead to data corruption.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner





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