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29.Dd August 4, 2009
30.Dt AU_IO 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm au_fetch_tok ,
34.Nm au_print_tok ,
35.Nm au_print_flags_tok ,
36.Nm au_read_rec
37.Nd "perform I/O involving an audit record"
38.Sh LIBRARY
39.Lb libbsm
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In bsm/libbsm.h
42.Ft int
43.Fn au_fetch_tok "tokenstr_t *tok" "u_char *buf" "int len"
44.Ft void
45.Fo au_print_tok
46.Fa "FILE *outfp" "tokenstr_t *tok" "char *del" "char raw" "char sfrm"
47.Fc
48.Ft void
49.Fo au_print_flags_tok
50.Fa "FILE *outfp" "tokenstr_t *tok" "char *del" "int oflags"
51.Fc
52.Ft int
53.Fn au_read_rec "FILE *fp" "u_char **buf"
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55These interfaces support input and output (I/O) involving audit records,
56internalizing an audit record from a byte stream, converting a token to
57either a raw or default string, and reading a single record from a file.
58.Pp
59The
60.Fn au_fetch_tok
61function
62reads a token from the passed buffer
63.Fa buf
64of length
65.Fa len
66bytes, and returns a pointer to the token via
67.Fa tok .
68.Pp
69The
70.Fn au_print_tok
71function
72prints a string form of the token
73.Fa tok
74to the file output stream
75.Fa outfp ,
76either in default mode, or raw mode if
77.Fa raw
78is set non-zero.
79The delimiter
80.Fa del
81is used when printing.
82The
83.Fn au_print_flags_tok
84function is a replacement for
85.Fn au_print_tok .
86The
87.Fa oflags
88controls how the output should be formatted and is specified by
89or'ing the following flags:
90.Pp
91.Bl -tag -width AU_OFLAG_NORESOLVE -compact -offset indent
92.It Li AU_OFLAG_NONE
93Use the default form.
94.It Li AU_OFLAG_NORESOLVE
95Leave user and group IDs in their numeric form.
96.It Li AU_OFLAG_RAW
97Use the raw, numeric form.
98.It Li AU_OFLAG_SHORT
99Use the short form.
100.It Li AU_OFLAG_XML
101Use the XML form.
102.El
103.Pp
104The flags options AU_OFLAG_SHORT and AU_OFLAG_RAW are exclusive and
105should not be used together.
106.Pp
107The
108.Fn au_read_rec
109function
110reads an audit record from the file stream
111.Fa fp ,
112and returns an allocated memory buffer containing the record via
113.Fa *buf ,
114which must be freed by the caller using
115.Xr free 3 .
116.Pp
117A typical use of these routines might open a file with
118.Xr fopen 3 ,
119then read records from the file sequentially by calling
120.Fn au_read_rec .
121Each record would be broken down into components tokens through sequential
122calls to
123.Fn au_fetch_tok
124on the buffer, and then invoking
125.Fn au_print_flags_tok
126to print each token to an output stream such as
127.Dv stdout .
128On completion of the processing of each record, a call to
129.Xr free 3
130would be used to free the record buffer.
131Finally, the source stream would be closed by a call to
132.Xr fclose 3 .
133.Sh RETURN VALUES
134The
135.Fn au_fetch_tok
136and
137.Fn au_read_rec
138functions
139return 0 on success, or \-1 on failure along with additional error information
140returned via
141.Va errno .
142.Sh SEE ALSO
143.Xr free 3 ,
144.Xr libbsm 3
145.Sh HISTORY
146The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
147division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
148It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
149the OpenBSM distribution.
150.Pp
151The
152.Fn au_print_flags_tok
153function was added by Stacey Son as a replacement for the
154.Fn au_print_tok
155so new output formatting flags can be easily added without changing the API.
156The
157.Fn au_print_tok
158is obsolete but remains in the API to support legacy code.
159.Sh AUTHORS
160.An -nosplit
161This software was created by
162.An Robert Watson ,
163.An Wayne Salamon ,
164and
165.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
166for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
167Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
168.Pp
169The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
170stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
171.Sh BUGS
172The
173.Va errno
174variable
175may not always be properly set in the event of an error.
176