# as unprivileged user, "bar" sudo dnf -y install sshfs # or equivalent sudo useradd -m joe sudo passwd joe cd mkdir mnt/ sshfs joe@localhost: mnt/ -o idmap=user export GNUPGHOME="$HOME/mnt/.gnupg"
$ gpg --list-keys gpg: directory '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg' created gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx.lock' done via O_EXCL gpg: keybox '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx.lock' done via O_EXCL gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg.lock' done via O_EXCL gpg: /home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created $ gpg --list-keys gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx.lock' done via O_EXCL
I've tried experimenting with --debug-level, --debug, --no-tty, --no-verbose, --quiet, etc., but this seemingly informational/debug message seems to be always printed.
ltrace doesn't really tell what logging mechanism this goes through,
[pid 24809] gpgrt_fileno(0x560a6cbb1f20, 0, 0, 0) = 2
[pid 24809] gcry_xmalloc(20, 0, 0, 0) = 0x560a6cbb6210
[pid 24809] gpgrt_fopencookie(0x560a6cbb6210, 0x560a6c57547d, 0, 0) = 0x560a6cbb6460
[pid 24809] gpgrt_setvbuf(0x560a6cbb6460, 0, 1, 0) = 0
[pid 24809] gpgrt_flockfile(0x560a6cbb6460, 0, 0, 0x560a6cbba5b0) = 0
[pid 24809] gpgrt_fputs_unlocked(0x560a6c5a1aa0, 0x560a6cbb6460, 0, 0) = 0
[pid 24809] gpgrt_fputs_unlocked(0x560a6c57bda2, 0x560a6cbb6460, 0x560a6cbb85b0, 5) = 0
[pid 24809] gpgrt_vfprintf_unlocked(0x560a6cbb6460, 0x560a6c57c080, 0x7ffd5bcbf650, 0x203a4742 <unfinished ...>
[pid 24809] write(2, "gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar"..., 60gpg: DBG: locking for '/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx.lock) = 60
[pid 24809] write(2, "' done via O_EXCL\n", 18' done via O_EXCL
) = 18
[pid 24809] <... gpgrt_vfprintf_unlocked resumed> ) = 68
[pid 24809] strlen("locking for '%s' done via O_EXCL"...) = 33This would seem to imply that the
# define my_debug_1(a,b) fprintf (stderr, (a), (b))
variant of my_debug_1 got used, but no - doing a backtrace, log_debug was chosen in the big #ifdef GNUPG_MAJOR_VERSION in common/dotlock.c.
#0 log_debug (fmt=0x55555563ab40 "locking for '%s' done via O_EXCL\n") at logging.c:967 #1 0x000055555560441b in dotlock_create_unix (h=0x555555669330, file_to_lock=0x555555669290 "/home/bar/mnt/.gnupg/pubring.kbx") at dotlock.c:762 #2 0x00005555555f6b9a in keybox_lock (hd=hd@entry=0x5555556692c0, yes=yes@entry=1, timeout=timeout@entry=0) at keybox-init.c:281 #3 0x00005555555864f5 in keydb_add_resource (url=<optimized out>, flags=4) at keydb.c:828 #4 0x00005555555685fe in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at gpg.c:4055
I haven't looked deeper into why log_debug cannot be suppressed.
Debugging done on gnupg2-2.2.20-2.fc32.x86_64, but the problem is still present in gnupg2-2.2.25-2.fc34.x86_64.
Also reproduced with upstream version of gnupg-2.2.25.
Since the message seems like an implementation detail, maybe it shouldn't even be printed by default.
Thanks!