I'm sponsoring this case for myself and the the Solaris Audit project team.
I believe it qualifies for self review and am marking it closed approved
automatic.
I'm happy to turn it into a fast track and set the timer if anyone believes
I've misjudged.
The case requests an obselescence announcement in a Patch release for
potential removal in a Minor release.
For convenience full diff-marked man pages are in the case directory.
Gary..
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Background:
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PSARC/2008/787 "Obsolete of some Solaris Audit commands" changed
the interface taxonomy of the audit_control(4) file to Obsolete Committed
and announced it in a Solaris 10 update. getacinfo(3bsm) is a set of library
interfaces that extract fields from the audit_control file. With the
potential for removal of the audit_control file, interfaces to extract
fields from the will no longer work. Auditing was introduced some time
around SunOS 5.2 and getacinfo() was never ARCed or assigned a formal
Interface Taxonomy. This case assumes that it is form of Stable. The
project team assumes Evolving (now Committed).
Proposal:
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* Change the Interface Taxonomies of getacinfo(3bsm) to Obsolete Committed
in a Patch release of Solaris.
* Add a paragraph to the man page NOTES section:
These functions are Obsolete and may be removed and replaced with
equivalent functionality in a future release of Solaris.
* Add an announcement in the "What's New in the Solaris Release" document:
A previous What's New announced that in a future release, the
configuration file for controlling the audit service -- auditd(1M),
audit_control(4), may be removed and replaced with equivalent
functionality. In a future release that removes audit_control(4),
getacinfo(3bsm) - get audit control file information will also
be removed.
As discussed in PSARC/2008/787, the intent is to move functionality of
[audit_startup and] audit_control into the SMF service svc:/system/auditd
(auditd(1M)). As PSARC/2009/022 "audit_startup(1m) EOL and removal" did
for audit_startup, a future case will be submitted for the actual EOL and
removal of audit_control(4) and getacinfo(3bsm).
