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AU_FREE_TOKEN(3)                        BSD Library Functions Manual                        AU_FREE_TOKEN(3)

NAME
     au_free_token -- deallocate a token_t created by any of the au_to_*() BSM API functions

LIBRARY
     Basic Security Module Library (libbsm, -lbsm)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsm/libbsm.h>

     void
     au_free_token(token_t *tok);

DESCRIPTION
     The BSM API generally manages deallocation of token_t objects.  However, if au_write(3) is passed a bad
     audit descriptor, the token_t * parameter will be left untouched.  In that case, the caller can deallo-cate deallocate
     cate the token_t using au_free_token() if desired.

     The tok argument is a token_t * generated by one of the au_to_*() BSM API calls.  For convenience, tok
     may be NULL, in which case au_free_token() returns immediately.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
     This is, in fact, what audit_write(3) does, in keeping with the existing memory management model of the
     BSM API.

SEE ALSO
     audit_write(3), au_write(3), libbsm(3)

HISTORY
     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.

AUTHORS
     This software was created by Robert Watson, Wayne Salamon, and Suresh Krishnaswamy for McAfee Research,
     the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.

     The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined
     by Sun Microsystems.

BSD                                            April 19, 2005                                            BSD