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Stupid question: shouldn't it be KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING rather than KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING ?

• daurnimator 11y ago
  > Stupid question: shouldn't it be KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING rather than KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING ? Not a stupid question. It doesn't really matter; the distinction between 'thread' and 'process' on linux is very thin: `CLONE_THREAD` and `CLONE_VM` are independant. I chose to use `KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING` to err on the safe side. In the back of my mind I also considered that thread-local would be 'more' local than process-local, and hence might be faster inside the kernel (but this is unverified).