Subject: Bug#4231: acct(2) man page refers to nonexistent acct(5) man page

From: Richard Kettlewell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:25:50 +0100 (BST)

Package: manpages
Version: 1.11-4

According to `man 2 acct':

    SEE ALSO
	   acct(5)

But:

    richard@sfere:richard$ man 5 acct
    No manual entry for acct in section 5
    richard@sfere:richard$ 

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 07:21 EDT

Richard> Package: manpages
  Richard> Version: 1.11-4
...
  Richard> No manual entry for acct in section 5

I wrote a realy minimial acct(5) for the acct package which basically refers
back to acct(2), see below.

As acct.h is in the kernel source, and hence in libc5-dev, this acct.5 (or
an improved version) chould move to manpages.

.TH ACCT 5 "1995 October 31" "Debian/GNU Linux"
.SH NAME
acct \- execution accounting file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <sys/acct.h>
.SH DESCRIPTION
The kernel maintains an accounting information structure for all
processes. If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the kernel
calls the
.BR acct (2)
function to prepare, and then append, a record for this process
to the accounting file. The accounting structure
.B "struct acct"
is described in the file
.IR /usr/src/linux/include/acct.h .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR acct (2),
.BR sa (1).

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd