On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:18:19 +0100
David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Add a key/keyring change notification facility whereby notifications about
> changes in key and keyring content and attributes can be received.
> 
> Firstly, an event queue needs to be created:
> 
>       fd = open("/dev/event_queue", O_RDWR);
>       ioctl(fd, IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, page_size << n);
> 
> then a notification can be set up to report notifications via that queue:
> 
>       struct watch_notification_filter filter = {
>               .nr_filters = 1,
>               .filters = {
>                       [0] = {
>                               .type = WATCH_TYPE_KEY_NOTIFY,
>                               .subtype_filter[0] = UINT_MAX,
>                       },
>               },
>       };
>       ioctl(fd, IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter);
>       keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fd, 0x01);

One little nit: it seems that keyctl_watch_key is actually spelled
keyctl(KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY, ...).

jon

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