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AU_IO(3)		    Library Functions Manual		      AU_IO(3)

NAME
       au_fetch_tok, au_print_tok, au_read_rec -- perform I/O involving	an au-
       dit record

LIBRARY
       Basic Security Module Library (libbsm, -lbsm)

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<bsm/libbsm.h>

       int
       au_fetch_tok(tokenstr_t *tok, u_char *buf, int len);

       void
       au_print_tok(FILE *outfp,    tokenstr_t *tok,	char *del,   char raw,
	   char	sfrm);

       int
       au_read_rec(FILE	*fp, u_char **buf);

DESCRIPTION
       These  interfaces  support  input  and  output  (I/O)  involving	 audit
       records,	internalizing an audit record from a byte stream, converting a
       token  to  either  a raw	or default string, and reading a single	record
       from a file.

       The au_fetch_tok() function reads a token from the passed buffer	buf of
       length len bytes, and returns a pointer to the token via	tok.

       The au_print_tok() function prints a string form	of the	token  tok  to
       the  file  output  stream outfp,	either in default mode,	or raw mode if
       raw is set non-zero.  The delimiter del is used when printing.

       The au_read_rec() function reads	an audit record	from the  file	stream
       fp,  and	 returns  an allocated memory buffer containing	the record via
       *buf, which must	be freed by the	caller using free(3).

       A typical use of	these routines might open a file with  fopen(3),  then
       read records from the file sequentially by calling au_read_rec().  Each
       record  would  be broken	down into components tokens through sequential
       calls to	au_fetch_tok() on the buffer, and then invoking	au_print_tok()
       to print	each token to an output	stream such as stdout.	On  completion
       of  the	processing  of each record, a call to free(3) would be used to
       free the	record buffer.	Finally, the source stream would be closed  by
       a call to fclose(3).

RETURN VALUES
       The  au_fetch_tok() and au_read_rec() functions return 0	on success, or
       -1 on failure along with	 additional  error  information	 returned  via
       errno.

SEE ALSO
       free(3),	libbsm(3)

HISTORY
       The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee	Research, the security
       division	 of  McAfee  Inc.,  under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in
       2004.  It was subsequently adopted by the  TrustedBSD  Project  as  the
       foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

AUTHORS
       This  software  was created by Robert Watson, Wayne Salamon, and	Suresh
       Krishnaswamy for	McAfee Research, the  security	research  division  of
       McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.

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

BUGS
       The errno variable may not always be properly set in the	 event	of  an
       error.

FreeBSD	ports 15.0		April 19, 2005			      AU_IO(3)

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