v7 man page for acct

Query: acct

OS: v7

Section: 2

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ACCT(2) 							System Calls Manual							   ACCT(2)

NAME
acct - turn accounting on or off
SYNOPSIS
acct(file) char *file;
DESCRIPTION
The system is prepared to write a record in an accounting file for each process as it terminates. This call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file as argument, turns on accounting; records for each terminating process are appended to file. An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off. The accounting file format is given in acct(5).
SEE ALSO
acct(5), sa(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
On error -1 is returned. The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user. It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.
BUGS
No accounting is produced for programs running when a crash occurs. In particular nonterminating programs are never accounted for.
ASSEMBLER
(acct = 51.) sys acct; file ACCT(2)
Related Man Pages
acct(2) - bsd
acct(2) - debian
acct(2) - sunos
acct(2) - centos
acct(2) - opendarwin
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