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30.Dd April 19, 2005
31.Dt AU_FREE_TOKEN 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm au_free_token
35.Nd "deallocate a token_t created by any of the au_to_*() BSM API functions"
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libbsm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In bsm/libbsm.h
40.Ft void
41.Fn au_free_token "token_t *tok"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The BSM API generally manages deallocation of
44.Vt token_t
45objects.
46However, if
47.Xr au_write 3
48is passed a bad audit descriptor, the
49.Vt "token_t *"
50parameter will be left untouched.
51In that case, the caller can deallocate the
52.Vt token_t
53using
54.Fn au_free_token
55if desired.
56.Pp
57The
58.Fa tok
59argument is a
60.Vt "token_t *"
61generated by one of the
62.Fn au_to_*
63BSM API calls.
64For convenience,
65.Fa tok
66may be
67.Dv NULL ,
68in which case
69.Fn au_free_token
70returns immediately.
71.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
72This is, in fact, what
73.Xr audit_write 3
74does, in keeping with the existing memory management model of the BSM API.
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr au_write 3 ,
77.Xr audit_write 3 ,
78.Xr libbsm 3
79.Sh HISTORY
80The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
81division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
82It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
83the OpenBSM distribution.
84.Sh AUTHORS
85.An -nosplit
86This software was created by
87.An Robert Watson ,
88.An Wayne Salamon ,
89and
90.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
91for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
92Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
93.Pp
94The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
95stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
96