[Bug] lingering gpg-agents from test suite

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Mon May 15 01:30:02 PDT 2017


On Mon, May 15 2017, Justus Winter wrote:

> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks to changes in gnupg 2.1.20, the agent started by the notmuch test
>> suite is no longer killed by deleting the home directory.
>>
>> So yay, we get to adapt to changes in gnupg, again.
>>
>> See also
>>
>>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862093
>
> where you write:
>> As of 2.1.20, removing $GNUPGHOME is no longer enough for gpg-agent to
>> shut itself down. It seems that removing the directory
>> /run/user/gnupg/d.$hash is enough to trigger the shutdown.
>>
>> I'm not sure the underlying cause; perhaps the change to use /run/user
>> for non-standard homedirs (which I generally think is sensible) has
>> this as a side-effect.
>
> What triggers the automatic shutdown is the removal of the socket.
> 2.1.20 creates the so-called socket directory automatically (if it finds
> /**/run/user).
>
>> The main practical difficulty for me is that this makes it harder for
>> test suites using gnupg to work across multiple gpg versions and
>> multiple environments. I suppose I'll have to see how far back
>> "gpgconf --kill all" is supported.
>
> Yes, please try to do 'gpgconf --kill all' and ignore the exit status.

Quick & dirty:

trap 'if command -v gpgconf >/dev/null; then
         gpgconf --kill all || :
      fi
      trap - 0' 0 INT HUP TERM QUIT

I'll look a bit more a bit later...

Tomi


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