From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ppsw-30.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-30.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.130]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66B973957483 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:20:09 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 66B973957483 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cam.ac.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ctr28@cam.ac.uk DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cam.ac.uk; s=20180806.ppsw; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Cc: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=fmj/a/KnEXYtUOmB6tORJbTOAtCI5yb0Bpo24NysQqE=; b=ueRC+WTPg8H0shvDU9HtdF04hB EUj2JAp6d/x9ovBLNwsYU4iUPAQ34rXVxiQ9P/HyvUSQh22IKpjMldyBfRg8LJeHhfag0ae1ZnJqx 5KWI9UorbrUi2t94NA6KzW8HarPxTvVEuA/fIhz+NHb8maiQ7MJKxTXaUCR6k8Q7WoCY=; X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/email-scanner-virus Received: from aa.wbic.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.93.201]:4140 helo=[192.168.3.207]) by ppsw-30.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.156]:587) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:ctr28) (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) id 1jRiKO-000sMK-eZ (Exim 4.92.3) for cygwin@cygwin.com (return-path ); Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:20:08 +0100 Subject: Re: ssh-pageant To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5f24168f-61d7-848b-677d-bf0d5aea303a@cam.ac.uk> <373832437.20200423230202@yandex.ru> From: Chris Rodgers Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:20:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <373832437.20200423230202@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIMWL_WL_MED, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:20:10 -0000 Dear Andrew, Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting! > It's not that simple. You can't blindly restart agent every time you wish > without notifying other programs, `--reuse` is a very bad idea and there's > no easy way to set/change an environment variable globally for an entire > user session. May I ask, why do you say "--reuse" is a very bad idea? I'd be interested to know in general, not just when considering this change. Best wishes, Chris.