AUDIT_NAME_TO_FLAG(3)

💖 AUDIT_NAME_TO_FLAG(3) 💖

okay bestie so we're deep in the Linux Audit API today and this one is literally a little translator function, no cap. it's audit_name_to_flag, and it's giving "name goes in, number comes out" energy. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

audit_name_to_flag — converts the rule-matching filter name into the numeric rule-matching filter value. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_name_to_flag(const char *flag);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, audit_name_to_flag() takes a rule-matching filter name and turns it into the matching numeric rule-matching filter value. glow-up but make it integers ✨

the names it recognizes, and their numeric besties, are:

• "task" → AUDIT_FILTER_TASK
• "exit" → AUDIT_FILTER_EXIT
• "user" → AUDIT_FILTER_USER
• "exclude" → AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE
• "filesystem" → AUDIT_FILTER_FS

and flag is, you guessed it, the rule-matching filter name you're passing in. 🫶

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

• if something goes wrong, she returns -1 😭
• otherwise? you get back the numeric rule-matching filter value. slay. ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• audit_flag_to_name(3), — the reverse girly, they're a matching set fr fr

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Steve Grubb — king behavior, we stan 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this lil icon came from Red Hat, Mar 2022, and honestly? timeless. periodt. 💅✨🎀