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keyrings.7: Minor clarification on where big_key payload is stored

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Eugene Syromyatnikov 2016-11-25 04:01:11 +03:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ key type, but it may hold a payload of up to 1 MiB in size.
The data may be stored in the swap space rather than in kernel memory
if the data size exceeds the overhead of storing the data in swap space
(a tmpfs file is used, which requires filesystem structures
to be allocated in the kernel).
to be allocated in the kernel; the size of these determines size threshold
above which tmpfs storage method is used).
This key type is useful for tasks such as holding Kerberos ticket caches.
.PP
There are more specialized key types available also,