AUDIT_DETECT_MACHINE(3)

💖 AUDIT_DETECT_MACHINE(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Linux Audit API corner of the man pages ✨ this one's a lil baby function but she's important, trust 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

audit_detect_machine — the girl who figures out what machine you're on 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_detect_machine(void);

like literally that's it, no args, no drama, she just knows 🧚

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so audit_detect_machine goes and queries uname, then takes that kernel machine string and converts it into an enum value that's defined in machine_t 🌈

and why do we care?? because the machine type is needed for any use of the audit_name_to_syscall function. like, you cannot use that one without knowing this one first. they're a package deal, iykyk 😌

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

• if something goes wrong → she returns -1 😭
• otherwise → the return value is the machine's type 👑

no in-between, no maybes, periodt.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• uname(3)
• audit_name_to_syscall(3)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Steve Grubb — the icon who wrote this 💖

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Red Hat · Oct 2006 — yeah bestie this page is old enough to have its own vibe, and it still ate 💅✨ bye luv u 🫶