linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] keys: Add a notification facility [ver #4]

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:47:11 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, raven@...maw.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] keys: Add a notification facility [ver #4]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> > 	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, ...).

Yeah - but there'll be a wrapper for it in -lkeyutils.  The syscalls I added
in other patches are, technically, referred to syscall(__NR_xxx, ...) at the
moment too.

David