From https://github.com/funtoo/keychain/issues/13

I'm starting up keychain as port of my shell login-script. And I normally have a KDE "konsole" window containing several shell sub-windows (tabs).

Now when logging in, each shell processes the login-script (.bash_profil) and each shell starts keychain. So I end up with six or even more keychain dialog-boxes in parallel.

I would appreciate if keychain would implement some locking to avoid this. Thanks!