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SubjectRe: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use/Linux man-pages uses the "Oxford comma" convention.

"... an optional comma ..." ;-)

There's also:

... LSM security checks are still performed, and may filter out
further keys that the process is not authorized to view.

but has two parts and isn't a list... ;-P

> >> D The key is dead (i.e., has been deleted). (A
> >> key may be briefly in this state during
> >> garbage collection.)
> >
> > No - "dead" in this context means that the key type was unregistered.
>
> Okay, so the text should read as:
>
> D The key is dead (i.e., the key has been unregis‐
> tered). (A key may be briefly in this state
> during garbage collection.)
>
> Right?

Not quite. The driver for the key type has been unregistered, not the key.

David

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