Locked resources post execution

[Suhas Srivastava]

Thanks Werner for your response.

I am using the python-gnupg <https://github.com/vsajip/python-gnupg>
project to manage GPG related operations and I encountered an error where,
after key creation, certain lock files remain in the system.

Thinking that the lock files are left over by the subprocess calls this
library makes to contact gpg, I raised the error as a GitHub issue in that
library. After examining that issue, the author suggested that the leftover
lock files may be a gpg issue and not a library issue. The whole error
scenario and reproducibility steps are detailed in that issue
<https://github.com/vsajip/python-gnupg/issues/257>.

Request to kindly go through the issue link and check and reflect on it
because the left over lock files:

   1. may indicate leaked resources.
   2. errs on next CLI runs.
   3. A new subprocess may not behave correctly or simply not run because
   of the lock files.

Thanks & Regards,
Suhas

On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > I even received a link to phabricator to set my password but opening that
> > link brings up a 403 forbidden page.
>
> Please use a different browser.  We are still under hefty DoS and from
> time to time we need to lock out some user agent string (browser).
> Thank you cheap AI.
>
> >    - Examine whether this bug (possible anomaly) was reported earlier and
> >    the progress on its remediation.
>
> BTW, you can do this w/o an account.
>
> It might be easier for you to report it here here to share the problem
> with a lot of other users.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
>
> --
> The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
> refuse military service.             - A. Einstein
>
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