audit_request_features(3)

audit_request_features3

Request audit feature bitmap

Usage

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_request_features(int fd);

Overview

audit_request_features() requests that the kernel send a structure describing supported audit features on fd which must be an open audit netlink socket.

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(2) would encounter.

Author

Steve Grubb

From audit 4.2.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.