Re: [PATCH 4/6] KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys.

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 18:03:34 EST


Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This won't require keyring->sem?

Why should it? A keyring merely points at a key, and if you follow this line
of argument, then every keyring pointing at a key would have to be locked.

David
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