audit_open – Open a audit netlink socket connection
Synopsis
#include <libaudit.h>
int audit_open (void);
Description
audit_open creates a NETLINK_AUDIT socket for communication with the kernel part of the Linux Audit Subsystem. The audit system uses the ACK feature of netlink. This means that every message to the kernel will return a netlink status packet even if the operation succeeds.
Return Value
Returns -1 if an error occurs; otherwise, the return value is a descriptor referencing the socket.
Errors
The
audit_open() function may fail and set
errno for any of the errors specified for the
socket(2) and
fcntl(2) routines.
See Also
netlink(7).
Author
Steve Grubb
