acct — execution accounting file
#include <sys/acct.h>
If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting option enabled, the system call
acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");
will start the process accounting. Each time a process
terminates a record for this process is appended to the
accounting file. The accounting structure struct acct is also described in
the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h.
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Copyright (c) 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel (Dirk.Eddelbuettelqed.econ.queensu.ca) This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any document formatting or typesetting system, including intermediate and printed output. This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. FIXME this page needs to say a lot more, including mentioning Version 3 format process accounting on Linux. |