Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The destination keyring serial number may be that of a valid
> keyring for which the caller has write permission, or it may be
> one of the following special keyring IDs:
No comma before "or".
> "user" This is a general purpose key type whose payload may be
> ...
> "keyring"
It probably makes sense to put keyring either first or last.
> "keyring"
> Keyrings are special key types that may contain links to
> sequences of other keys of any type. If this interface
> is used to create a keyring, then a NULL payload should
> be specified, and plen should be zero.
I think "then payload should be NULL and plen should be zero." sounds better.
> "logon" (since Linux 3.3)
> This key type is essentially the same as "user", but it
> does not provide reading.
"permit the key to be read" rather than "provide reading", I think.
> "big_key" (since Linux 3.13)
> This key type is similar to "user", but may hold a pay‐
> load of up to 1 MiB. If the key payload is large, then
> it may be stored in swap space rather than kernel mem‐
> ory.
"stored encrypted in swap space".
> printf("Key ID is %lx\n", (long) key);
key_serial_t is an int. It doesn't really need casting to long.
David
