NAME

       ausyscall - a program that allows mapping syscall names and numbers

SYNOPSIS

       ausyscall [arch] name | number | --dump | --exact

DESCRIPTION

       ausyscall  is a program that prints out the mapping from syscall name to number and reverse for the given
       arch. The arch can be anything returned by `uname -m`. If arch is not given,  the  program  will  take  a
       guess based on the running image. Or for convenience, you can pass b32 or b64 to use the current arch but
       a  specific ABI. You may give the syscall name or number and it will find the opposite. You can also dump
       the whole table with the --dump option. By default a syscall  name  lookup  will  be  a  substring  match
       meaning  that  it  will try to match all occurrences of the given name with syscalls. So giving a name of
       chown will match both fchown and chown as any other syscall with chown in its name. If this  behavior  is
       not desired, pass the --exact flag and it will do an exact string match.

       This  program  can  be  used  to  verify  syscall numbers on a biarch platform for rule optimization. For
       example, suppose you had an auditctl rule:

       -a always, exit -S open -F exit=-EPERM -k fail-open

       If you wanted to verify that both 32 and 64 bit programs would be audited, run "ausyscall i386 open"  and
       then  "ausyscall x86_64 open". (Or use the b32 and b64 option.) Look at the returned numbers. If they are
       different, you will have to write two auditctl rules to get complete coverage.

       -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S open -F exit=-EPERM -k fail-open
       -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S open -F exit=-EPERM -k fail-open

       For more information about a specific syscall, use the man program and pass the number 2 as  an  argument
       to  make  sure  that you get the syscall information rather than a shell script program or glibc function
       call of the same name. For example, if you wanted to learn about the open syscall, type: man 2 open.

OPTIONS

       --dump Print all syscalls for the given arch

       --exact
              Instead of doing a partial word match, match the given syscall name exactly.

SEE ALSO

       ausearch(8), auditctl(8).

AUTHOR

       Steve Grubb

Red Hat                                             Nov 2008                                        AUSYSCALL(8)