acct - switch process accounting on or off


SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int acct(const char *filename);


DESCRIPTION

       When called with the name of an existing file as argument,
       accounting is turned on, records for each terminating pro­
       cess  are appended to filename as it terminates.  An argu­
       ment of NULL causes accounting to be turned off.


RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1  is  returned,
       and errno is set appropriately.


ERRORS

       ENOSYS BSD  process  accounting  has not been enabled when
              the operating system kernel was compiled.  The ker­
              nel  configuration  parameter controlling this fea­
              ture is CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.

       ENOMEM Out of memory.

       EPERM  The calling process has  no  permission  to  enable
              process accounting.

       ENOENT The specified filename does not exist.

       EACCES The argument filename is not a regular file.

       EIO    Error writing to the file filename.

       EUSERS There  are  no  more free file structures or we run
              out of memory.


CONFORMING TO

       SVr4 (but  not  POSIX).   SVr4  documents  EACCES,  EBUSY,
       EFAULT,  ELOOP,  ENAMETOOLONG,  ENOTDIR, ENOENT, EPERM and
       EROFS error conditions, but no ENOSYS.


NOTES

       No accounting is produced  for  programs  running  when  a
       crash occurs.  In particular, nonterminating processes are
       never accounted for.


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