audit_name_to_flag(3)

audit_name_to_flag3

Convert the rule-matching filter name to the numeric rule-matching filter value

Usage

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_name_to_flag(const char *flag);

Overview

audit_name_to_flag() converts the rule-matching filter name ("task", "exit", "user", "exclude", "filesystem") to the numeric rule-matching filter value (AUDIT_FILTER_TASK, AUDIT_FILTER_EXIT, AUDIT_FILTER_USER, AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE, AUDIT_FILTER_FS). flag is the rule-matching filter name.

Return value

Returns -1 if an error occurs; otherwise, the return value is the numeric rule-matching filter value.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–Arch

Author

Steve Grubb

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