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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/libbsm/au_io.3#2 $
+.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/libbsm/au_io.3#5 $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 2005
.Dt AU_IO 3
@@ -32,15 +32,17 @@
.Nm au_fetch_tok ,
.Nm au_print_tok ,
.Nm au_read_rec
-.Nd "Perform I/O involving an audit record"
+.Nd "perform I/O involving an audit record"
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libbsm
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.In libbsm.h
+.In bsm/libbsm.h
.Ft int
.Fn au_fetch_tok "tokenstr_t *tok" "u_char *buf" "int len"
.Ft void
-.Fn au_print_tok "FILE outfp" "tokenstr_t *tok" "char *del" "char raw" "char sfrm"
+.Fo au_print_tok
+.Fa "FILE *outfp" "tokenstr_t *tok" "char *del" "char raw" "char sfrm"
+.Fc
.Ft int
.Fn au_read_rec "FILE *fp" "u_char **buf"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -48,31 +50,37 @@ 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.
.Pp
+The
.Fn au_fetch_tok
+function
reads a token from the passed buffer
-.Va buf
+.Fa buf
of length
-.Va len
+.Fa len
bytes, and returns a pointer to the token via
-.Va tok .
+.Fa tok .
.Pp
+The
.Fn au_print_tok
+function
prints a string form of the token
-.Va tok
+.Fa tok
to the file output stream
-.Va outfp,
+.Fa outfp ,
either in default mode, or raw mode if
-.Va raw
+.Fa raw
is set non-zero.
The delimiter
-.Va del
+.Fa del
is used when printing.
.Pp
+The
.Fn au_read_rec
+function
reads an audit record from the file stream
-.Va fp ,
+.Fa fp ,
and returns an allocated memory buffer containing the record via
-.Va *buf ,
+.Fa *buf ,
which must be freed by the caller using
.Xr free 3 .
.Pp
@@ -93,27 +101,36 @@ would be used to free the record buffer.
Finally, the source stream would be closed by a call to
.Xr fclose 3 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
.Fn au_fetch_tok
and
.Fn au_read_rec
-return 0 on success, or -1 on failure along with additional error information
+functions
+return 0 on success, or \-1 on failure along with additional error information
returned via
.Va errno .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr free 3 ,
.Xr libbsm 3
-.Sh 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.
-.Pp
-The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
-stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
.Sh 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.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+This software was created by
+.An Robert Watson ,
+.An Wayne Salamon ,
+and
+.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
+for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
+Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
+.Pp
+The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
+stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
.Sh BUGS
+The
.Va errno
+variable
may not always be properly set in the event of an error.
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