AUDIT_OPEN - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 3
Updated : Oct 2006
Source : Red Hat
Note : Linux Audit API

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NAMEaudit_open − Open a audit netlink socket connection

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SYNOPSIS#include <libaudit.h> int audit_open (void);

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DESCRIPTIONaudit_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.

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RETURN VALUEReturns −1 if an error occurs; otherwise, the return value is a descriptor referencing the socket.

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

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SEE ALSOnetlink(7).

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