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process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
.\" Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
.\"
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.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_SW_ONEPARA)
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.\" 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.
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.\" %%%LICENSE_END
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.\"
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.TH "PROCESS-KEYRING" 7 2016-11-01 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.SH NAME
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process-keyring \- per-process shared keyring
process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The process keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process.
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It is created only when a process requests it.
process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.P
keyrings.7, persistent-keyring.7, process-keyring.7, session-keyring.7, thread-keyring.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7: ffix + pages xref fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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A special serial number value,
.BR KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING ,
is defined that
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can be used in lieu of the calling process's process keyring's actual serial
number.
.P
From the keyctl utility, '\fB@p\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
keyrings.7, persistent-keyring.7, process-keyring.7, session-keyring.7, thread-keyring.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7: ffix + pages xref fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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A process's process keyring is inherited across
.BR clone (2)
with
.B CLONE_THREAD
and is cleared by
.BR execve (2).
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The process keyring will be destroyed when the last
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thread that refers to it exits.
.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
keyrings.7, persistent-keyring.7, process-keyring.7, session-keyring.7, thread-keyring.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7: ffix + pages xref fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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error
.B ENOKEY
will be issued.
process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.SH SEE ALSO
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process-keyring.7: New page adopted from keyutils Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces, it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather than the keyutils package. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.BR keyctl (1),
.BR keyctl (3),
.BR keyrings (7),
keyrings.7, persistent-keyring.7, process-keyring.7, session-keyring.7, thread-keyring.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7: Fix SEE ALSO entries * Prevent hyphenation * Order entries alphabetically Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.BR persistent\-keyring (7),
.BR process\-keyring (7),
.BR session\-keyring (7),
.BR thread\-keyring (7),
.BR user\-keyring (7),
.BR user\-session\-keyring (7)