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Re: [OT] You Don't Want To Read This (was: Re: How to disable passphrase prompt)



David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:33:23AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:26:56AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:27:15AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:25:56PM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:56:11PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> 
> > > > > > I need some help with mutt/gpg. I am sending my email with 
> > > > > > autosign. Now
> > > > > > how do I disable the Enter PGP Passphrase prompt since I do not use 
> > > > > > it ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Why don't you just use a ridiculously long timeout for autoforgetting
> > > > > your passphrase?  You just hit RETURN the first time, and never have 
> > > > > to
> > > > 
> > > > Because it would be an ugly kludge?
> > > 
> > > so what?  It works, and doesn't break anything :-)
> > 
> > Breaks your personal integrity.
> 
> Oh, that just breaks my heart ;-P
> 
> > > > > enter it again.
> > > > 
> > > > Does Mutt not use an int counter?
> > > 
> > > huh?
> > 
> > Means it's not `forever', just for 2**31 units of time or so.
> 
> It's really 2**32-1, which is closer to 2**32, so let's use that instead:


Actually on my Sun Enterprise 420R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz) the
highest I can do is 2**15-1 (32767) secs which is only 9 hours


But thanks. I guess I will just have to live with that

> 
> $ echo $((2**30/60*100/60*2/24*2/36525))
> 136
> 
> 136 years is an awfully long time to be running a program without
> upgrading (or segfaulting, or losing power, or SOMETHING).  Besides,
> your 32-bit machine's time_t is obsolete, so time itself will be reset on



-- 
Asif Iqbal
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8B686E08
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