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diff --git a/man/man7/thread-keyring.7 b/man/man7/thread-keyring.7 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0a04f9312 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man7/thread-keyring.7 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.\" 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 thread-keyring 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +thread-keyring \- per-thread keyring +.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. +The thread keyring has the name (description) +.IR _tid . +.P +A special serial number value, +.BR KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING , +is defined that can be used in lieu of the actual serial number of +the calling thread's thread keyring. +.P +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. +.P +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 terminates. +.P +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 fails with the error +.BR ENOKEY . +.SH SEE ALSO +.ad l +.nh +.BR keyctl (1), +.BR keyctl (3), +.BR keyrings (7), +.BR persistent\-keyring (7), +.BR process\-keyring (7), +.BR session\-keyring (7), +.BR user\-keyring (7), +.BR user\-session\-keyring (7) |