gnupg under X

[Martin Stenzel <h0444xyv@rz.hu-berlin.de>]

Hallo,

first of all I want to thank you for answering my MAXHOSTNAMELEN problem.

I have been figuring for a while but to no success:

When I try to work with gnupg (1.0.4) under X I get the error message:

gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured

and gnupg aborts.
In terminal mode I have no problems.
I executed the /dev/MAKEDEV script that did generate a /dev/tty.
I am not sure whether this script comes as standard, executing ls -l /dev/tty gets me:

/dev/tty: can't stat '/dev/tty' (Device not configured).

When looking through the source I found the file ttyio.c,
the culprit lies here , I guess(the actual file is larger, this is just a part of it):

----------------------------------------------------------------
static void
init_ttyfp(void)
{
    if( initialized )
	return;

  #if defined(__MINGW32__)
    {
	SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;

	memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));
	sa.nLength = sizeof(sa);
	sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
	con.out = CreateFileA( "CONOUT$", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE,
			       FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
			       &sa, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0 );
	if( con.out == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
	    log_fatal("open(CONOUT$) failed: rc=%d", (int)GetLastError() );
	memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));
	sa.nLength = sizeof(sa);
	sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
	con.in = CreateFileA( "CONIN$", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE,
			       FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
			       &sa, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0 );
	if( con.in == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
	    log_fatal("open(CONIN$) failed: rc=%d", (int)GetLastError() );
    }
    SetConsoleMode(con.in, DEF_INPMODE );
    SetConsoleMode(con.out, DEF_OUTMODE );

  #elif defined(__EMX__)
    ttyfp = stdout; /* Fixme: replace by the real functions: see wklib */
  #else
    ttyfp = batchmode? stderr : fopen("/dev/tty", "r+");
    if( !ttyfp ) {
	log_error("cannot open /dev/tty: %s\n", strerror(errno) );
	exit(2);
    }
  #endif
  #ifdef HAVE_TCGETATTR
    atexit( cleanup );
  #endif
    initialized = 1;
}
---------------------------------------------------------------


May I change the source or how can I configure /dev/tty?

Since I could not find a binary for the Hurd, I am asking here...

TIA, Martin.

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Martin Stenzel
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