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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2018-03-06 16:22:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2018-03-06 16:22:42 +0100 |
| commit | f060cb5c63923d6caec784f65f3bb0aadf52f795 (patch) | |
| tree | 01c8cfb212800be36311b66d9899e607168641db /doc/gpg-agent.texi | |
| parent | gpg: Fix regression in last --card-status patch (diff) | |
| download | gnupg2-f060cb5c63923d6caec784f65f3bb0aadf52f795.tar.xz gnupg2-f060cb5c63923d6caec784f65f3bb0aadf52f795.zip | |
agent: Also evict cached items via a timer.
* agent/cache.c (agent_cache_housekeeping): New func.
* agent/gpg-agent.c (handle_tick): Call it.
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This change mitigates the risk of having cached items in a post mortem
dump.
GnuPG-bug-id: 3829
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/gpg-agent.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg-agent.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi index 3e8bd894d..4781bbdca 100644 --- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi +++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi @@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ control this behavior but this command line option takes precedence. Set the time a cache entry is valid to @var{n} seconds. The default is 600 seconds. Each time a cache entry is accessed, the entry's timer is reset. To set an entry's maximum lifetime, use -@command{max-cache-ttl}. +@command{max-cache-ttl}. Note that a cached passphrase may not +evicted immediately from memory if no client requests a cache +operation. This is due to an internal housekeeping function which is +only run every few seconds. @item --default-cache-ttl-ssh @var{n} @opindex default-cache-ttl |