audit_open(3) — Linux manual page

AUDIT_OPEN(3)                Linux Audit API               AUDIT_OPEN(3)

NAME

       audit_open - Open a audit netlink socket connection

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libaudit.h>

       int audit_open(void);

DESCRIPTION

       audit_open creates a NETLINK_AUDIT socket for communication with
       the kernel part of the Linux Audit Subsystem. The audit system
       uses the ACK feature of netlink. This means that every message to
       the kernel will return a netlink status packet even if the
       operation succeeds.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns -1 if an error occurs; otherwise, the return value is a
       descriptor referencing the socket.

ERRORS

       The audit_open() function may fail and set errno for any of the
       errors specified for the socket(2) and fcntl(2) routines.

SEE ALSO

       netlink(7).

AUTHOR

       Steve Grubb

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Red Hat                         Oct 2006                   AUDIT_OPEN(3)

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