On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:49, harakiri...@yahoo.com said: > a) GNUPG does not inform the caller via status-fd that its a detached > signature and halts the processing
It does not hold the processing but whats for input - this is by design and expected beahaviour for any Unix tool. > b) GNUPG needs "--batch" on "some" occasions to be really "batch mode" > compatbile (this is undocumented and should be a flag) It is already. > c) Since i do not know in advance if it is an encrypted or detached signature > file (no status output) - i may need to pipe the passphrase too - but with > stdin to dev/null - i cant anymore Use --passphrase-fd 5 or alike. And in fact you should know what you are doing. A detached signature and an encrypted file are very different things. If your question is how to figure out what this OpenPGP messag is about, you can just call it properly and check the output. If it is a detached signature it will says so. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
