From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265060AbUHIP2h (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:28:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266181AbUHIPZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:25:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42473 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266650AbUHIPYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:24:54 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <16109.1092044758@redhat.com> References: <16109.1092044758@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , James Morris , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, Chris Wright , sfrench@samba.org, mike@halcrow.us, Trond Myklebust , Kyle Moffett Subject: [PATCH] implement in-kernel keys & keyring management [try #4] User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:24:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1681.1092065051@redhat.com> To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've updated my patch and test programs such that the concept of negative keys is now supported. Negative keys are produced when request-key fails. They time out after a short amount of time. They can be updated to real keys later. http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keys-268rc2-4.diff.bz2 http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keyctl.c http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/request-key.c http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/request-key-dhowells.sh David