Werner Koch writes ("Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850656: gnupg-agent: Please
allow config to specify fast RNG"):
> Obviously we had the same problem in the test suite and thus we
> implemented an ugly hack to pass additional options via the
> --agent-program option:
>
> else if ((s=strchr (agent_program, '|')) && s[1] == '-' && s[2]=='-')
Oh! Well that would certainly remove one lot of annoyance. Thanks
for the info. Can this be documented, please ? Ideally in addition
to the change I requested here, to allow the config to specify.
If nothing else someone may in theory be confused when they make an
agent program whose name contains `|' for some mad reason...
> We use use it like this in the test suite:
Thanks.
> For help with using gnupg I would kindly suggest to mail to gnupg-devel
> and not to open a bug for each question.
Well, yes. However, this bug report is not a question. It is a
request for a change in behaviour.
Thanks,
Ian.
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