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28.Dd April 19, 2005
29.Dt AU_IO 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm au_fetch_tok ,
33.Nm au_print_tok ,
34.Nm au_read_rec
35.Nd "perform I/O involving an audit record"
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libbsm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In bsm/libbsm.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn au_fetch_tok "tokenstr_t *tok" "u_char *buf" "int len"
42.Ft void
43.Fo au_print_tok
44.Fa "FILE *outfp" "tokenstr_t *tok" "char *del" "char raw" "char sfrm"
45.Fc
46.Ft int
47.Fn au_read_rec "FILE *fp" "u_char **buf"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49These interfaces support input and output (I/O) involving audit records,
50internalizing an audit record from a byte stream, converting a token to
51either a raw or default string, and reading a single record from a file.
52.Pp
53The
54.Fn au_fetch_tok
55function
56reads a token from the passed buffer
57.Fa buf
58of length
59.Fa len
60bytes, and returns a pointer to the token via
61.Fa tok .
62.Pp
63The
64.Fn au_print_tok
65function
66prints a string form of the token
67.Fa tok
68to the file output stream
69.Fa outfp ,
70either in default mode, or raw mode if
71.Fa raw
72is set non-zero.
73The delimiter
74.Fa del
75is used when printing.
76.Pp
77The
78.Fn au_read_rec
79function
80reads an audit record from the file stream
81.Fa fp ,
82and returns an allocated memory buffer containing the record via
83.Fa *buf ,
84which must be freed by the caller using
85.Xr free 3 .
86.Pp
87A typical use of these routines might open a file with
88.Xr fopen 3 ,
89then read records from the file sequentially by calling
90.Fn au_read_rec .
91Each record would be broken down into components tokens through sequential
92calls to
93.Fn au_fetch_tok
94on the buffer, and then invoking
95.Fn au_print_tok
96to print each token to an output stream such as
97.Dv stdout .
98On completion of the processing of each record, a call to
99.Xr free 3
100would be used to free the record buffer.
101Finally, the source stream would be closed by a call to
102.Xr fclose 3 .
103.Sh RETURN VALUES
104The
105.Fn au_fetch_tok
106and
107.Fn au_read_rec
108functions
109return 0 on success, or \-1 on failure along with additional error information
110returned via
111.Va errno .
112.Sh SEE ALSO
113.Xr free 3 ,
114.Xr libbsm 3
115.Sh HISTORY
116The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
117division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
118It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
119the OpenBSM distribution.
120.Sh AUTHORS
121.An -nosplit
122This software was created by
123.An Robert Watson ,
124.An Wayne Salamon ,
125and
126.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
127for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
128Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
129.Pp
130The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
131stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
132.Sh BUGS
133The
134.Va errno
135variable
136may not always be properly set in the event of an error.
137