thread-keyring.7: Various rewordings and additions

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.SH DESCRIPTION
The thread keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process.
It is created only when a thread requests it.
.P
A special serial number value,
.BR KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING ,
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
is defined that can be used in lieu of the actual serial number of
the calling thread's thread keyring.
From the
.BR keyctl (1)
utility, '\fB@t\fP' can be used instead of a numeric key ID in
much the same way, but as
.BR keyctl (1)
is a program run after forking, this is of no utility.
Thread keyrings are not inherited across
.BR clone (2)
and
.BR fork (2)
and are cleared by
.BR execve (2).
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
.B ENOKEY
will be issued.
A thread keyring is destroyed when the thread that refers to it terminates.
Initially, a thread does not have a thread keyring.
If a thread doesn't have a thread keyring when it is accessed,
then it will be created if it is to be modified;
otherwise the operation will fail with the error
.BR ENOKEY .
.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
.nh