ACCT
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NAME
acct - turn accounting on or off
SYNOPSIS
acct(file)
char *file;
DESCRIPTION
The system is prepared to write a record
in an accounting
file
for each process as it terminates.
This
call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file
as argument, turns on accounting;
records for each terminating process are appended to
file.
An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.
The accounting file format is given in
acct(5).
SEE ALSO
acct(5), sa(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
On error -1 is returned.
The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.
BUGS
No accounting is produced for programs running
when a crash occurs.
In particular nonterminating programs are never
accounted for.
ASSEMBLER
(acct = 51.)
sys acct; file
Index
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