2.6.16 Return information about the process

This is a multipurpose function to return a variety of information.

GETINFO what

The value of what specifies the kind of information returned:

version

Return the version of the program.

pid

Return the process id of the process.

socket_name

Return the name of the socket used to connect the agent.

ssh_socket_name

Return the name of the socket used for SSH connections. If SSH support has not been enabled the error GPG_ERR_NO_DATA will be returned.