difficulty with TYPE

[John Dennis]

James Antill wrote:
>  The second iovec above can't just be MAX_AUDIT_MESSAGE_LENGTH, or if
> there are two messages you'll read some/all of the next one(s). You
> either need to read the header first and then use hdr.size, or separate
> the IO from the parsing.
>  Also you can't just check for readv() as above, you need to check that
> you've read the amount of data you want, and if you didn't get it all
> yet then loop. 

This is why we provide libraries to do things like this, it can be 
tricky to get right. The feed() interface to auparse consumes arbitrary 
amounts of data (perfect for use in select/recv calls) and then calls 
back with audit events as they are recognized in the input stream you 
fed it.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>