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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-17 14:31:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-27 09:36:23 +0100 |
| commit | 60be6628faf9e31bc8f4c8f09b6aed0bed1fc23d (patch) | |
| tree | eb527ebc48719e95de196b13b6a21a3a861e5261 /man2 | |
| parent | 0978f70669f76f75542ce7700d0d49bc50ded805 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-60be6628faf9e31bc8f4c8f09b6aed0bed1fc23d.tar.gz | |
keyctl.2: KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING also has an effect for request_key(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/keyctl.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/keyctl.2 b/man2/keyctl.2 index 878f0d7314..1b88e97d9e 100644 --- a/man2/keyctl.2 +++ b/man2/keyctl.2 @@ -889,10 +889,6 @@ via the function .TP .BR KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING " (since Linux 2.6.13)" Set the default keyring to which implicitly requested keys -.\" FIXME -.\" Does this operation have any effect for the request_key(2) system call? -.\" -.\" David Howells: to be checked will be linked for this thread, and return the previous setting. Implicit key requests are those made by internal kernel components, .\" I.e., calls to the kernel's internal request_key() interface, @@ -900,6 +896,10 @@ Implicit key requests are those made by internal kernel components, .\" ultimately employs the kernel-internal interface). such as can occur when, for example, opening files on an AFS or NFS filesystem. +Setting the default keyring also has an effect when requesting +a key from user space; see +.BR request_key (2) +for details. The .I arg2 |