gpgsm: New option --input-size-hint.

* sm/gpgsm.c (oInputSizeHint): New.
(opts): Add "--input-size-hint".
(main): Set option.
* sm/server.c (option_handler): Add option "input-size-hint".
* sm/gpgsm.h (struct server_control_s): Add field input_size_hint.
* sm/encrypt.c (gpgsm_encrypt): Set the toatl file size.
* sm/decrypt.c (gpgsm_decrypt): Ditto.
* sm/sign.c (gpgsm_sign): Ditto.
* sm/verify.c (gpgsm_verify): Ditto.
--

This option allows to set a value for the progress output line.  Note
that as of now there is no other way to set the file size.

GnuPG-bug-id: 6534

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/gpgsm.texi b/doc/gpgsm.texi
index 11c5c1962..e976767f6 100644
--- a/doc/gpgsm.texi
+++ b/doc/gpgsm.texi
@@ -554,6 +554,13 @@ Assume the input data is plain base-64 encoded.
 @opindex assume-binary
 Assume the input data is binary encoded.
 
+@item --input-size-hint @var{n}
+@opindex input-size-hint
+This option can be used to tell GPGSM the size of the input data in
+bytes.  @var{n} must be a positive base-10 number.  It is used by the
+@option{--status-fd} line ``PROGRESS'' to provide a value for
+``total'' if that is not available by other means.
+
 @anchor{option --p12-charset}
 @item --p12-charset @var{name}
 @opindex p12-charset
@@ -1721,6 +1728,9 @@ If @var{value} is true or @var{value} is not given all network access
 is disabled for this session.  This is the same as the command line
 option @option{--disable-dirmngr}.
 
+@item input-size-hint
+This is the same as the @option{--input-size-hint} command line option.
+
 @end table
 
 @mansect see also