ACCT

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NAME

acct - execution accounting file  

SYNOPSIS

Fd #include <sys/acct.h>  

DESCRIPTION

The kernel maintains the following Fa acct information structure for all processes. If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the kernel calls the acct(2) function call to prepare and append the record to the accounting file.
/*
 * Accounting structures; these use a comp_t type which is a 3 bits base 8
 * exponent, 13 bit fraction ``floating point'' number.  Units are 1/AHZ
 * seconds.
 */
typedef u_short comp_t;

struct acct {
        char    ac_comm[10];    /* name of command */
        comp_t  ac_utime;       /* user time */
        comp_t  ac_stime;       /* system time */
        comp_t  ac_etime;       /* elapsed time */
        time_t  ac_btime;       /* starting time */
        uid_t   ac_uid;         /* user id */
        gid_t   ac_gid;         /* group id */
        short   ac_mem;         /* memory usage average */
        comp_t  ac_io;          /* count of IO blocks */
        dev_t   ac_tty;         /* controlling tty */
#define AFORK   0x01            /* forked but not execed */
#define ASU     0x02            /* used super-user permissions */
#define ACOMPAT 0x04            /* used compatibility mode */
#define ACORE   0x08            /* dumped core */
#define AXSIG   0x10            /* killed by a signal */
        char    ac_flag;        /* accounting flags */
};

/*
 * 1/AHZ is the granularity of the data encoded in the comp_t fields.
 * This is not necessarily equal to hz.
 */
#define AHZ     64

#ifdef KERNEL
struct vnode    *acctp;
#endif

If a terminated process was created by an execve(2), the name of the executed file (at most ten characters of it) is saved in the field Fa ac_comm and its status is saved by setting one of more of the following flags in Fa ac_flag: AFORK ASU ACOMPAT ACORE and ASIG  

SEE ALSO

acct(2), accton(8), execve(2), lastcomm(1), sa(8)  

HISTORY

A file format appeared in AT&T System v7 .


 

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