Ahora he descubierto cómo conectar / tocar eventos de teclado en OS X a un nivel bajo:Cómo tocar (enganchar) F7 a F12 y Power / Eject en un teclado MacBook

Imprimir el código de esa respuesta:

// compile and run from the commandline with:
//    clang  -framework coreFoundation  -framework IOKit  ./HID.c  -o hid
//    sudo ./hid

// This code works with the IOHID library to get notified of keys.
//   Still haven't figured out how to truly intercept with
//   substitution.

#include <IOKit/hid/IOHIDValue.h>
#include <IOKit/hid/IOHIDManager.h>

void myHIDKeyboardCallback( void* context,  IOReturn result,  void* sender,  IOHIDValueRef value )
{
    IOHIDElementRef elem = IOHIDValueGetElement( value );

    if (IOHIDElementGetUsagePage(elem) != 0x07)
        return;

    uint32_t scancode = IOHIDElementGetUsage( elem );

    if (scancode < 4 || scancode > 231)
        return;

    long pressed = IOHIDValueGetIntegerValue( value );

    printf( "scancode: %d, pressed: %ld\n", scancode, pressed );
}


CFMutableDictionaryRef myCreateDeviceMatchingDictionary( UInt32 usagePage,  UInt32 usage )
{
    CFMutableDictionaryRef dict = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(
                                                            kCFAllocatorDefault, 0
                                                        , & kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks
                                                        , & kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks );
    if ( ! dict )
        return NULL;

    CFNumberRef pageNumberRef = CFNumberCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberIntType, & usagePage );
    if ( ! pageNumberRef ) {
        CFRelease( dict );
        return NULL;
    }

    CFDictionarySetValue( dict, CFSTR(kIOHIDDeviceUsagePageKey), pageNumberRef );
    CFRelease( pageNumberRef );

    CFNumberRef usageNumberRef = CFNumberCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberIntType, & usage );

    if ( ! usageNumberRef ) {
        CFRelease( dict );
        return NULL;
    }

    CFDictionarySetValue( dict, CFSTR(kIOHIDDeviceUsageKey), usageNumberRef );
    CFRelease( usageNumberRef );

    return dict;
}


int main(void)
{
    IOHIDManagerRef hidManager = IOHIDManagerCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, kIOHIDOptionsTypeNone );

    CFArrayRef matches;
    {
        CFMutableDictionaryRef keyboard = myCreateDeviceMatchingDictionary( 0x01, 6 );
        CFMutableDictionaryRef keypad   = myCreateDeviceMatchingDictionary( 0x01, 7 );

        CFMutableDictionaryRef matchesList[] = { keyboard, keypad };

        matches = CFArrayCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, (const void **)matchesList, 2, NULL );
    }

    IOHIDManagerSetDeviceMatchingMultiple( hidManager, matches );

    IOHIDManagerRegisterInputValueCallback( hidManager, myHIDKeyboardCallback, NULL );

    IOHIDManagerScheduleWithRunLoop( hidManager, CFRunLoopGetMain(), kCFRunLoopDefaultMode );

    IOHIDManagerOpen( hidManager, kIOHIDOptionsTypeNone );

    CFRunLoopRun(); // spins
}

¿Cómo puedo (quizás adaptar ese código) identificar qué teclado es responsable de un evento en particular?

El caso de uso es que estoy planeando usar un teclado externo que se reasignará, pero al mismo tiempo conservará la asignación original para mi teclado MacBook incorporado.

EDITAR:
¿Filtro HID OSX para teclado secundario?
https://github.com/candera/khordr/blob/master/src/c/keygrab/hid-scratch.c
http://ianjoker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Joker/Joker/hid_test.cpp
http://www.cplusplusdevelop.com/72_17345226/
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/229902-which-keyboard-barcode-scanner-did-the-event-come-from.html