audit_set_backlog_wait_time(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

AUDIT_SE...WAIT_TIME(3)  Library Functions Manual AUDIT_SE...WAIT_TIME(3)

NAME         top

       audit_set_backlog_wait_time - Set the audit backlog wait time

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <libaudit.h>

       int audit_set_backlog_wait_time(int fd, uint32_t bwt);"

DESCRIPTION         top

       audit_set_backlog_wait_time sets the time that the kernel will
       wait before attempting to send more audit events on the descriptor
       given in fd. The bwt parameter specifies the delay in jiffies
       before attempting to transfer more events when the backlog_limit
       is reached. This gives the audit daemon a chance to drain the
       kernel queue. The default value is 60000 or 60 * HZ setting in the
       kernel.

RETURN VALUE         top

       The return value is <= 0 on error, otherwise it is the netlink
       sequence id number. This function can have any error that sendto
       would encounter.

SEE ALSO         top

       audit_set_backlog_limit(3), audit_open(3), auditd(8), auditctl(8).

AUTHOR         top

       Steve Grubb

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the audit (Linux Audit) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, send it to linux-audit@redhat.com.  This
       page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace.git⟩ on
       2025-08-11.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2025-08-09.)  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
       or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
       mail to man-pages@man7.org

Linux Audit API                  Oct 2014         AUDIT_SE...WAIT_TIME(3)

Pages that refer to this page: audit_reset_backlog_wait_time_actual(3)