Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>   emacsclient --eval '(read-passwd "gpg passwd: ")'
>
> This looks like a very clean solution.  Except that you have to make sure
> that Emacs is running a server, and if the user is running several Emacsen at
> the same time you may not be able to get to that server.

Given Werner's proposed mechanism, pinentry is contacting emacs because
emacs asked it to (by setting the special environment variable) -- so
Emacs should be prepared to be contacted, and can communicate any needed
info in the environment variable.

-Miles

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