Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

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