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diff --git a/man2/acct.2 b/man2/acct.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de03a0e --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/acct.2 @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt +.\" (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified 1993-07-22 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified 1993-08-10 by Alan Cox <iiitac@pyramid.swansea.ac.uk> +.\" Modified 1998-11-04 by Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.com> +.\" Modified 2004-05-27, 2004-06-17, 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk +.\" +.TH acct 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +acct \- switch process accounting on or off +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "int acct(const char *_Nullable " filename ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR acct (): +.nf + Since glibc 2.21: +.\" commit 266865c0e7b79d4196e2cc393693463f03c90bd8 + _DEFAULT_SOURCE + In glibc 2.19 and 2.20: + _DEFAULT_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500) + Up to and including glibc 2.19: + _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500) +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR acct () +system call enables or disables process accounting. +If called with the name of an existing file as its argument, +accounting is turned on, +and records for each terminating process are appended to +.I filename +as it terminates. +An argument of NULL causes accounting to be turned off. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EACCES +Write permission is denied for the specified file, +or search permission is denied for one of the directories +in the path prefix of +.I filename +(see also +.BR path_resolution (7)), +or +.I filename +is not a regular file. +.TP +.B EFAULT +.I filename +points outside your accessible address space. +.TP +.B EIO +Error writing to the file +.IR filename . +.TP +.B EISDIR +.I filename +is a directory. +.TP +.B ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving +.IR filename . +.TP +.B ENAMETOOLONG +.I filename +was too long. +.TP +.B ENFILE +The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached. +.TP +.B ENOENT +The specified file does not exist. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Out of memory. +.TP +.B ENOSYS +BSD process accounting has not been enabled when the operating system +kernel was compiled. +The kernel configuration parameter controlling this feature is +.BR CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT . +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +A component used as a directory in +.I filename +is not in fact a directory. +.TP +.B EPERM +The calling process has insufficient privilege to enable process accounting. +On Linux, the +.B CAP_SYS_PACCT +capability is required. +.TP +.B EROFS +.I filename +refers to a file on a read-only filesystem. +.TP +.B EUSERS +There are no more free file structures or we ran out of memory. +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.\" SVr4 documents an EBUSY error condition, but no EISDIR or ENOSYS. +.\" Also AIX and HP-UX document EBUSY (attempt is made +.\" to enable accounting when it is already enabled), as does Solaris +.\" (attempt is made to enable accounting using the same file that is +.\" currently being used). +.SH NOTES +No accounting is produced for programs running when a system crash occurs. +In particular, nonterminating processes are never accounted for. +.PP +The structure of the records written to the accounting file is described in +.BR acct (5). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR acct (5) |