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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 system 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 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 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS
     The kernel does not fully validate that the argument passed is syntactically valid BSM.  Submitting
     invalid audit records may corrupt the audit log.

BSD                                            April 19, 2005                                            BSD