Please note that:

• There is a single user accessing the socket dir (which is the same as the homedir).
• The socketdir (homedir) is not in a local directory. It is in another file system accessed via the SMB protocol, with a command such as:

gpg --homedir "//192.168.32.211/c$/gpghomedir" ...

From the '&ovl' I assume that the lock file has been openned for overlapped IO.
Please see an extract from MSDN for the LockFileEx function:

We need to figure out why the file locks seem not to work. gpg-agent processes whatch there own socket and terminate if that socket does not belong to them anymore.

Yes it is the windows version. It occurs both in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
What I notice is that a gpg-agent is started, then after some time another one is started and the previous ends (presumably because it has lost the socket), etc. At any point in time, I can see only one agent instance running in the task manager, but with different process ids.

I assume this is the Windows version. gpg uses a locking mechanism to avoid creating several gpg-agent processes. In the worst case this may take quite some time until one of the processes can get the lock. There is an exponential backoff scheme in use and I have not yet found a way to replicate the full deadlock you describe. It would be helpful if you could describe in more detail how you run into this case.

So, if there's no support for native OpenSSH yet, I'll wait for it. After it's supported, I should be able to get the scenery I described working, right?

Unfortunately you can't pass extra arguments.

@bvieira You need to set pinentry-mode=loopback for gpg program used in git.

I'm actually trying to do the following:

In the meantime you can use [0]. I have tested with ssh key on yubikey and AuthenticationMethods publickey, win32-ssh (or ssh-portable, which is the new repository name) correctly works with gpg and pinentry is called.

Pushed modified patch to master and 2.2.

That patch fixes the build problem I got into today when trying to build 2.3 for windows. So 👍 from me and please commit the patch as it is already required when assuan and gpgrt config no longer emit ws2_32 in their pgk-config --libs line.

I just saw that there is related discussion and a patch for this in T4994 so I will close again here.

This change broke for me the compilation of GPGME which I fixed with: 52f930c1ed7eee6336a41598c90ef3605b7ed02b I found that fix there OK because GPGME explicitly uses ws2_32.

Linking $(NETLIB) is required when the executable uses WSAStartup.

Any news on this?

I just learned that WSAStartup can be called multiple times. So, it doesn't cause any erroneous behavior which I had been afraid of.

Thanks for looking into this. However, I do not understand the problem behind it. Is it the need to link against the socket lib? 10 or 15 years ago things were more complicated because two TCP stacks were in use and you could use the modern one only if a certain service pack or Explorer version was installed. That might be the reasons for some of the peculiarities we have in the code.

Given the situation we have call of WSAStartup in assuan_sock_init (for Windows), the solution would be:

• Removal of call of WSAStartup in _init_common_subsystems
• Even though it is not needed for POSIX system and it is only needed to call WAStartup on Windows, calling assuan_sock_init from each application (including gpg, gpgsm, dirmngr/dirmngr-client, and tools/* which uses libassuan), would be the solution (not perfect one, though, because it allocates sock_ctx)

Sorry, I was confused by assuan_socket_ API and assuan_sock_ API.

No info received

I am not any longer interested to see the real cause; eventually we will replace it anyway with a modern CreateProcess.

Here are the fixes:

diff --git a/common/init.c b/common/init.c
index 073c5cd8a..dbdf40527 100644
--- a/common/init.c
+++ b/common/init.c
@@ -161,17 +161,6 @@ _init_common_subsystems (gpg_err_source_t errsource, int *argcp, char ***argvp)
   /* Try to auto set the character set.  */
   set_native_charset (NULL);

Call of WSAStartup in dirmngr/http.c is no problem, as we define HTTP_NO_WSASTARTUP.

This fix reveals the problem of: T4994: Windows: assuan_sock_init or WSAStartup by main/_init_common_subsystem

I see no reason to not allow decryption of an entire folder recursively. The user knows what they are doing by right-clicking a folder instead of a file. You can show a progress dialog with a cancel button.

Right. GpgEX is in serious need of polishing. I'm not sure if I'm in favor of processing all files recursively. But then the decrypt option should not even be shown.

In T4932#134540, @aheinecke wrote:

If you have -g / -Og could you please provide a backtrace?

If you have -g / -Og could you please provide a backtrace?

Attaching the actual program

3.1.11

Please let us know which version of Gpg4win you are using.

Added variable value

set language
LANGUAGE=en_US

I launched the Kleopatra again. I did not notice any changes.

Thanks for your report. Yes this is sadly a known issue. Our backend system has it's own localization that uses the system language and does not care about the Kleopatra configuration.