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