Converting relative path to absolute path

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 17:33:39 UTC 2013


On Friday, December 06, 2013 08:42:44 AM Peter Moody wrote:
> > If I access a file with relative path, the PATH audit message would be
> > a relative path as well.
> > 
> > I wonder if I can change this behavior without modifying the kernel?
> 
> IIUC, there should be a CWD message to go along with the PATH message.
> You should be able to use that to find the absolute path

That is correct. What I do is take the cwd field and concatenate path and then 
run it through realpath(3) to finalize it.

-Steve




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