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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This document has the following sections:
- Notes on accessing payload contents
- Defining a key type
- Request-key callback service
- - Key access filesystem
+ - Garbage collection
============
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Each key has a number of attributes:
(*) Dead. The key's type was unregistered, and so the key is now useless.
+Keys in the last three states are subject to garbage collection. See the
+section on "Garbage collection".
+
====================
KEY SERVICE OVERVIEW
@@ -1231,3 +1234,17 @@ by executing:
In this case, the program isn't required to actually attach the key to a ring;
the rings are provided for reference.
+
+
+==================
+GARBAGE COLLECTION
+==================
+
+Dead keys (for which the type has been removed) will be automatically unlinked
+from those keyrings that point to them and deleted as soon as possible by a
+background garbage collector.
+
+Similarly, revoked and expired keys will be garbage collected, but only after a
+certain amount of time has passed. This time is set as a number of seconds in:
+
+ /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay
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