process-keyring (7)
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Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) 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.
NAME
process-keyring - Per-process shared keyringDESCRIPTION
The process keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a process. It is only created when a process requests it. A special serial number value, KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING, is defined that can be used in lieu of the calling process's process keyring's actual serial number. From the keyctl utility, '@p' 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. A process's process keyring is inherited across clone() with CLONE_THREAD and is cleared by execve(). The process keyring will be destroyed when the last thread that refers to it exits. 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 error ENOKEY will be issued.SEE ALSO
keyctl(1),keyctl(3),
keyrings(7),
thread-keyring(7),
process-keyring(7),
session-keyring(7),
user-keyring(7),
user-session-keyring(7),
persistent-keyring(7)