Here we go:

Alright, my above putenv option won't work because it modifies the session environment and thus needs to be run for each gpg-agent session (connection). Adding a putenv_startrup option would help here but this way each connection could chnage the environment - also not good. In the end a way to modify the used environment variables, as you suggested, is a better way.

Yes, the workaround is to use a pinentry wrapper script that sets the value back to the correct one and then invokes the real pinentry.

Fixed in: rE0f4fe2edf5e5: spawn: Care about closefrom/close call is interrupted.

@werner I read the code of gpgme/src/posix-io.c. I understand the two points:

• For the correctness sake, the possible interrupted closefrom should be handled.
• we can share the code with closefrom case and non-closefrom case.

@gniibe: Please see gpgme/src/posix-io.c where we have this: