Comment 3 for bug 847388

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Actually, looking more carefully at the manpage

       --no-tty
              Make sure that the TTY (terminal) is never used for any output. This option is needed in some cases because GnuPG
              sometimes prints warnings to the TTY even if --batch is used.

so, setting this unconditionally might be harmless, and it might well be the behaviour you describe of it trying to write output that causes a problem.