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34 .Nd "commit BSM audit record to audit log"
38 .Fn audit "const char *record" "u_int length"
43 submits a completed BSM audit record to the system audit log.
48 is a pointer to the specific event to be recorded and
50 is the size in bytes of the data to be written.
56 system call will fail and the data never written if:
61 argument is beyond the allocated address space of the process.
63 The token ID is invalid or
68 The process does not have sufficient permission to complete
81 The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
82 division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
83 It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
84 the OpenBSM distribution.
87 This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
88 of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
89 Additional authors include
94 The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
95 stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
97 This manual page was written by
98 .An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
102 kernel does not fully validate that the argument passed is syntactically
104 Submitting invalid audit records may corrupt the audit log.