.TH AUSYSCALL "8" "Feb 2023" "Red Hat" "System Administration Utilities"
.SH NAME
ausyscall \- a program that allows mapping syscall names and numbers
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ausyscall [arch] name | number | \-\-dump | \-\-exact
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBausyscall\fP 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 \fBb32\fP or \fBb64\fP 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.

The program takes the special arch,
.B uring,
to denote that you want to specify io_uring operations. In this case, the arch must be given because it will otherwise detect the underlying harware.

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

.B \-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.

.nf
.B \-a always,exit \-F arch=b32 \-S open \-F exit=\-EPERM \-k fail\-open
.B \-a always,exit \-F arch=b64 \-S open \-F exit=\-EPERM \-k fail\-open
.fi

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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-dump
Print all syscalls for the given arch
.TP
.B \-\-exact
Instead of doing a partial word match, match the given syscall name exactly.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ausearch (8),
.BR auditctl (8).

.SH AUTHOR
Steve Grubb