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Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review

From "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review
Date 2016-12-14 08:30 +0100
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On 12/13/2016 03:20 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>               The payload data may  be  stored  in  a  tmpfs  filesystem,
>>               rather  than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the
>>               overhead of storing the data in the  filesystem.   (Storing
>>               the  data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to
>>               be allocated in the kernel.  The size of  these  structures
>>               determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage
>>               method is used.)  Since Linux  4.8,  the  payload  data  is
>>               encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written
>>               unencrypted into swap space.
> 
> "... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"?

Fixed.

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 12:40 +0100
  Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 13:50 +0100
    Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 14:00 +0100
      Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 14:40 +0100
        Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 15:00 +0100
          Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 15:30 +0100
            Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 08:30 +0100
    Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-13 14:40 +0100
      Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 14:50 +0100

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