audit_request_signal_info (3) Linux Manual Page

audit_request_signal_info – Request signal info for the audit system

Synopsis

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_request_signal_info(int fd);

Description

audit_request_signal_info requests that the kernel send information about the sender of a signal to the audit daemon. The sinal info structure is as follows:

struct audit_sig_info {

 uid_t uid;

 pid_t pid;

 char ctx[0];

};

This function is likely to be used only by audit daemons and shouldn’t be called by any other kind of program.

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).

Author

Steve Grubb