OT: file operations atomicity

[Andrew Flerchinger]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
> My purpose was more to get the OP thinking in terms
> of better procedures for an automated process, and to try to point out
> that the current behavior of gnupg doesn't seem to be a bug.
>
>
> hth,
>
> Doug
>

That's still what I'm confused about. What is a reason for, under the
same conditions, intentionally making encrypt throw an error but
making decrypt pass on as successful? Why wouldn't it be consistent?

Andrew