audit(2) BSD System Calls Manual audit(2)
NAME
audit -- commit BSM audit record to audit log
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsm/audit.h>
int
audit(const char *record, u_int length);
DESCRIPTION
The audit() system call submits a completed BSM audit record to the sys-
tem audit log.
The record argument is a pointer to the specific event to be recorded and
length is the size in bytes of the data to be written.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The audit() system call will fail and the data never written if:
[EFAULT] The record argument is beyond the allocated address
space of the process.
[EINVAL] The token ID is invalid or length is larger than
MAXAUDITDATA.
[EPERM] The process does not have sufficient permission to
complete the operation.
SEE ALSO
auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), getauid(2), setaudit(2),
setaudit_addr(2), setauid(2), libbsm(3)
HISTORY
The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004.
It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation
for the OpenBSM distribution.
AUTHORS
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research divi-
sion of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional
authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit
event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.
BUGS
The kernel does not fully validate that the argument passed is syntacti-
cally valid BSM. Submitting invalid audit records may corrupt the audit
log.
BSD April 19, 2005 BSD
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