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AU_BSM_TO_ERRNO(3)	     Library Functions Manual	      AU_BSM_TO_ERRNO(3)

NAME
     au_bsm_to_errno,  au_errno_to_bsm,  au_strerror  -- convert between BSM and
     local error numbers

LIBRARY
     Basic Security Module Library (libbsm, -lbsm)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsm/libbsm.h>

     int
     au_bsm_to_errno(u_char bsm_error, int *errorp);

     u_char
     au_errno_to_bsm(int error);

     const char *
     au_strerror(int bsm_error);

DESCRIPTION
     These interfaces may be used to convert between the local (  errno(2))  and
     BSM error number spaces found in BSM return tokens.

     The  au_bsm_to_errno()  function  accepts a BSM error value, bsm_error, and
     converts it to an errno(2) that will be stored in the integer pointed to by
     errorp if successful.  This call will fail  if  the  BSM  error  cannot  be
     mapped  into  a local error number, which may occur if the return token was
     generated on another operating system.

     The au_errno_to_bsm() function accepts a local errno(2) value, and  returns
     the  BSM error number for it.  This call cannot fail, and instead returns a
     BSM error number indicating to a later decoder that the error could not  be
     encoded.

     The  au_strerror()  function converts a BSM error value to a string, gener-
     ally by converting first to a local error number and using the  local  str-
     error(3)  function,  but will also work for errors that are not locally de-
     fined.

RETURN VALULES
     On success, au_bsm_to_errno() returns 0 and a  converted  error  value;  on
     failure, it returns -1 but does not set errno(2).

     On  success, au_strerror() returns a pointer to an error string; on failure
     it will return NULL.

SEE ALSO
     au_to_return(3), au_to_return32(3), au_to_return64(3), libbsm(3)

HISTORY
     au_bsm_to_errno() and au_errno_to_bsm() were introduced in OpenBSM 1.1.

AUTHORS
     These functions were implemented by Robert Watson under contract  to  Apple
     Inc.

     The  Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
     stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.

BUGS
     au_strerror is unable to provide localized strings for errors not available
     in the local operating system.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	December 8, 2008	      AU_BSM_TO_ERRNO(3)

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