Name

audgenl − generate an audit record

Syntax

#include<sys/audit.h>

int audgenl (event [ ,token_type, token_val] ... , 0 )
unsigned event;

Arguments

event
An integer that indicates the event type of the operation being audited.

token_type,token_val
A type and value pair defining the data to be placed in the audit record.

Description

This routine is an interface to the audgen() system call. It accepts a variable number of arguments describing the event and audit data, then calls audgen() with the appropriate parameters to generate the audit record. This routine is found in the libaud.a library and is loaded with the -laud option. 

The argument event is an integer indicating the event type of the operation being audited, as defined in audit.h. The value of event must be between MIN_TRUSTED_EVENT and MIN_TRUSTED_EVENT + N_TRUSTED_EVENTS-1, as defined in audit.h. The argument pairs containing token_type and token_val describe the data that is to be placed into the audit record.  The argument token_type describes the type of data, as defined in audit.h.

The argument token_val should be set to the value of the token when the token is represented by an int or short data type, or be a pointer to the data described by the token when the token references a character string. 

Restrictions

The audgen() system call is privileged.

The maximum number of token_type, token_val pairs allowed is 8. 

Return Values

On successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, a value of −1 is returned and the global integer variable errno is set to indicate the error. 

Diagnostics

[EACCES] The user is not privileged for this operation. 

[EINVAL] The value supplied for an argument is invalid. 

See Also

audgen()