From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, 15553@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prompts for symmetrically encrypted files
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:39:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo2zcm6s.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpprf1z8o.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:57:53 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>>> - on a headless server this can lock up Emacs
>>> That's not good. We should try to make sure that detect the
>>> problematic situation, or make it easy for the user to get out of it
>>> (with something like a C-g).
>> I doubt such a hard lockup is possible, as epg.el uses async process.
>
> But it calls accept-process-output, so it can still get stuck.
Yes, but it's not a hard lockup. I can get out from the loop with C-g.
And actually Emacs 24 has the code to allow pinentry to fallback into
the curses mode in that case (though the interaction is not very well).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-07 18:03 bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prompts for symmetrically encrypted files Teodor Zlatanov
2013-10-07 23:54 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-08 1:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-08 1:43 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-08 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-08 7:07 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-08 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-09 0:39 ` Daiki Ueno [this message]
2013-10-09 3:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-09 4:10 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-10 0:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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