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diff --git a/man5/acct.5 b/man5/acct.5 index e1d88d4..a140bc4 100644 --- a/man5/acct.5 +++ b/man5/acct.5 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" -.TH acct 5 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH acct 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME acct \- process accounting file .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ If the kernel is built with the process accounting option enabled then calling .BR acct (2) starts process accounting, for example: -.PP +.P .in +4n acct("/var/log/pacct"); .in -.PP +.P When process accounting is enabled, the kernel writes a record to the accounting file as each process on the system terminates. This record contains information about the terminated process, and is defined in .I <sys/acct.h> as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX #define ACCT_COMM 16 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ enum { /* Bits that may be set in ac_flag field */ }; .EE .in -.PP +.P The .I comp_t data type is a floating-point value consisting of a 3-bit, base-8 exponent, @@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ and a 13-bit mantissa. A value, .IR c , of this type can be converted to a (long) integer as follows: -.PP +.P .nf v = (c & 0x1fff) << (((c >> 13) & 0x7) * 3); .fi -.PP +.P The .IR ac_utime , .IR ac_stime , @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ and fields is widened from 16 to 32 bits (in line with the increased size of UID and GIDs in Linux 2.4 and later). The records are defined as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct acct_v3 { @@ -135,19 +135,19 @@ and the details vary somewhat between systems. None. .SH HISTORY glibc 2.6. -.PP +.P Process accounting originated on BSD. .SH NOTES Records in the accounting file are ordered by termination time of the process. -.PP +.P Up to and including Linux 2.6.9, a separate accounting record is written for each thread created using the NPTL threading library; since Linux 2.6.10, a single accounting record is written for the entire process on termination of the last thread in the process. -.PP +.P The .I /proc/sys/kernel/acct file, described in |