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NAME
getaudit, getaudit_addr - retrieve audit session state
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsm/audit.h>
int
getaudit(auditinfo_t *auditinfo);
int
getaudit_addr(auditinfo_addr_t *auditinfo_addr, u_int length);
DESCRIPTION
The getaudit() system call retrieves the active audit session state for
the current process via the auditinfo_t pointed to by auditinfo. The
getaudit_addr() system call retrieves extended state via auditinfo_addr
and length.
These system calls require an appropriate privilege to complete.
RETURN VALUES
The getaudit() and getaudit_addr() functions return the value 0 if
successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable
errno is set to indicate the error.
SEE ALSO
audit(2), auditon(2), getauid(2), setaudit(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
division 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 Robert Watson 〈rwatson@FreeBSD.org〉.