listening to /dev/audit in a pthread program

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 23:13:23 UTC 2007


On Friday 20 April 2007 18:35:34 paul moore wrote:
> I have an test app that quite happily does an audit_set_pid and then sits
> there reading /dev/audit.

There isn't a /dev/audit in linux.org kernels.

> It works fine if its in the lead thread. But when I run the same code in my
> real app it runs in a different thread. 

The important detail is where the audit_open call is made. Netlink want to 
send it to the same tid.

-Steve




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