[redhat-lspp] Re: [Keyrings] [RFC] Coming key management support improvements

[David Howells]

Hi Trond,

David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:

>  (3) Make it possible for request_key() to avoid forking and executing
>      /sbin/request-key when a new key needs to be instantiated, but instead
>      talk to some already running process to do the honours.
> 
>      I'm currently thinking that the way to implement this is to add an extra
>      operation to the key-type definition so that the key type may override
>      the default choice of spawning /sbin/request-key.
> 
>      This would let NFS use the rpc_pipefs filesystem, for example.
> 
>      Alternate default ways of doing things can be added to the main key code
>      if there's sufficient interest in making them commonly available.

I presume this is alright with you, since you haven't objected.

David