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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:51:19 +0300
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Greetings, Chris Rodgers!

> 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.

With --reuse you're using predictable name, and not checking its permissions.
You can never know if that socket was actually created by you or left there by
accident. If you noticed, I trash both socket and agent configuration before
activating the agent anew. That gives me a little more control on what's going
on in the system.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 23, 2020 23:46:25

Sorry for my terrible english...

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