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-.Dd July 30, 2007
+.Dd March 5, 2009

 .Dt GETAUID 2
 .Dt GETAUID 2

-.Os Darwin
+.Os

 .Sh NAME
 .Nm getauid
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm getauid

-.Nd get the audit user ID of the current process  
+.Nd "retrieve audit user ID"

 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Sh SYNOPSIS

-.Fd #include <bsm/audit.h>
+.In bsm/audit.h

 .Ft int
 .Ft int

-.Fn getauid "au_id_t * auid"
+.Fn getauid "au_id_t *auid"

 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn getauid
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn getauid

-function returns the audit user ID for the calling process. The variable pointed
-at by 
-.Fa auid
-holds the ID returned by the system.
+system call
+retrieves the active audit user ID for the current process via the
+.Vt au_id_t
+pointed to by
+.Fa auid .

 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 .Sh RETURN VALUES

-Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.
-Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
-.Va errno
-is set to indicate the error.
+.Rv -std
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn getauid
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+A failure occurred while data transferred from
+the kernel failed.
+.El

 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr audit 2 ,
 .Xr auditon 2 ,
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr audit 2 ,
 .Xr auditon 2 ,

-.Xr auditctl 2 ,
-.Xr setauid 2 ,

 .Xr getaudit 2 ,
 .Xr getaudit 2 ,

-.Xr setaudit 2
+.Xr getaudit_addr 2 ,
+.Xr setaudit 2 ,
+.Xr setaudit_addr 2 ,
+.Xr setauid 2 ,
+.Xr libbsm 3

 .Sh HISTORY
 .Sh HISTORY

-The
-.Fn getauid
-function call first appeared in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
+The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
+division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
+It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
+the OpenBSM distribution.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
+of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
+Additional authors include
+.An Wayne Salamon ,
+.An Robert Watson ,
+and SPARTA Inc.
+.Pp
+The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
+stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
+.Pp
+This manual page was written by
+.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .