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diff --git a/man/thread-keyring.7 b/man/thread-keyring.7 deleted file mode 100644 index 5644fc7..0000000 --- a/man/thread-keyring.7 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -.\" -.\" Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. -.\" Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) -.\" -.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence -.\" as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version -.\" 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version. -.\" -.TH "THREAD KEYRING" 7 "20 Feb 2014" Linux "Kernel key management" -.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH NAME -thread_keyring \- Per-thread keyring -.SH DESCRIPTION -The -.B thread keyring -is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process. It is only created -when a thread requests it. -.P -A special serial number value, \fBKEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING\fP, is defined that -can be used in lieu of the calling thread's thread keyring's actual serial -number. -.P -From the keyctl utility, '\fB@t\fP' can be used instead of a numeric key ID in -much the same way, but as keyctl is a program run after forking, this is of no -utility. -.P -Thread keyrings are not inherited across clone() and are cleared by execve(). -A thread keyring is destroyed when the thread that refers to it exits. -.P -If a thread doesn't have a thread keyring when it is accessed, then the thread -keyring will be created if the keyring is to be modified, otherwise error -ENOKEY will be issued. -.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR keyctl (1), -.br -.BR keyctl (3), -.br -.BR keyrings (7), -.br -.BR process-keyring (7), -.br -.BR session-keyring (7), -.br -.BR user-keyring (7), -.br -.BR user-session-keyring (7) -.br -.BR persistent-keyring (7) |