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| author | Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> | 2020-11-24 15:28:02 -0500 |
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2021-01-21 16:16:08 +0000 |
| commit | 8fe62e0c0e2efa5437f3ee81b65d69e70a45ecd2 (patch) | |
| tree | bd1103f45277d1ead1165524501ad2e69c66ccf0 /Documentation/security | |
| parent | 796e46f9e2cb2d823578044598ee8fe77f86e3f7 (diff) | |
watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue
The merged API doesn't use a watch_queue device, but instead relies on
pipes, so let the documentation reflect that.
Fixes: f7e47677e39a ("watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility")
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/keys/core.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst index aa0081685ee1..b3ed5c581034 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst @@ -1040,8 +1040,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: "key" is the ID of the key to be watched. - "queue_fd" is a file descriptor referring to an open "/dev/watch_queue" - which manages the buffer into which notifications will be delivered. + "queue_fd" is a file descriptor referring to an open pipe which + manages the buffer into which notifications will be delivered. "filter" is either NULL to remove a watch or a filter specification to indicate what events are required from the key. |