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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man7/process-keyring.7 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man7/process-keyring.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man7/process-keyring.7 | 55 |
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man7/process-keyring.7 b/man/man7/process-keyring.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..215c721244 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man7/process-keyring.7 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +.\" Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.TH process-keyring 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +process-keyring \- per-process shared keyring +.SH DESCRIPTION +The process keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process. +It is created only when a process requests it. +The process keyring has the name (description) +.IR _pid . +.P +A special serial number value, +.BR KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING , +is defined that can be used in lieu of the actual serial number of +the calling process's process keyring. +.P +From the +.BR keyctl (1) +utility, '\fB@p\fP' can be used instead of a numeric key ID in +much the same way, but since +.BR keyctl (1) +is a program run after forking, this is of no utility. +.P +A thread created using the +.BR clone (2) +.B CLONE_THREAD +flag has the same process keyring as the caller of +.BR clone (2). +When a new process is created using +.BR fork () +it initially has no process keyring. +A process's process keyring is cleared on +.BR execve (2). +The process keyring is destroyed when the last +thread that refers to it terminates. +.P +If a process doesn't have a process keyring when it is accessed, +then the process keyring will be created if the keyring is to be modified; +otherwise, the error +.B ENOKEY +results. +.SH SEE ALSO +.ad l +.nh +.BR keyctl (1), +.BR keyctl (3), +.BR keyrings (7), +.BR persistent\-keyring (7), +.BR session\-keyring (7), +.BR thread\-keyring (7), +.BR user\-keyring (7), +.BR user\-session\-keyring (7) |