audit_request_status

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Version: 63268 (mandriva - 22/10/07)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

audit_request_status - Request status of the audit system

SYNOPSIS

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_request_status (int fd);

DESCRIPTION

audit_request_status requests that the kernel send status structure describing various settings. The audit_status structure is as follows:

 
 struct audit_status {
    __u32   mask;           /* Bit mask for valid entries */
    __u32   enabled;        /* 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled */
    __u32   failure;        /* Failure-to-log action */
    __u32   pid;            /* pid of auditd process */
    __u32   rate_limit;     /* messages rate limit (per second) */
    __u32   backlog_limit;  /* waiting messages limit */
    __u32   lost;           /* messages lost */
    __u32   backlog;        /* messages waiting in queue */
 };
 

RETURN VALUE

The return value is <= 0 on error, otherwise it is the netlink sequence id number. This function can have any error that sendto would encounter.

SEE ALSO

audit_open(3), audit_get_reply(3), auditd(8).

AUTHOR

Steve Grubb