What's a reasonably efficient way to fetch a lot of keys, by
fingerprint, from keyserver pools with HKPS?
Presently, the code is effectively this:
...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
This has the downside of causing many execs.
As an alternate, it was suggested that I could do manu
On 03/11/17 06:20, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Presently, the code is effectively this:
> ...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
>
> This has the downside of causing many exec
I just tried this and a list of 1319 fingerprints caused one single call
to "gpg --recv FPR1 FPR2 FPR3 ... FPR131
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 06:20, robb...@gentoo.org said:
> Presently, the code is effectively this:
> ...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
>
> This has the downside of causing many execs.
Right after a clean startup of your user session you will
see these execs:
1. xargs execs gpg
2.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 03/11/17 06:20, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > Presently, the code is effectively this:
> > ...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
> >
> > This has the downside of causing many exec
...
> Anyway, I didn't look any further,
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 08:17:38PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 06:20, robb...@gentoo.org said:
>
> > Presently, the code is effectively this:
> > ...cat-list-of-fingerprints... | xargs gpg --recv
> >
> > This has the downside of causing many execs.
>
> Right after a clean star
On 03/11/17 21:06, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> You missed xargs itself,
Actually, I did not :-).
> this mostly centers around the command-line
> length limit. I can get in about ~3200 fingerprints per GPG call.
I asked "what is exec'ing much". I don't see one exec every 3200
fingerprints as overhe
On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 06:06, robb...@gentoo.org said:
> Yes, the older versions do perform much worse, but even with gnupg2.2,
> each exec of gpg is still at least 100ms, which adds up over time.
I doubt that, let's see:
$ time sh -c 'seq 1 1 | xargs -n 1 gpg --version >/dev/null'
real0
