From 0ac0f559ce8283d1b4ecd752405d59e2683cf743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Thompson Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1979 15:31:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Research V7 development Work on file usr/man/man2/acct.2 Synthesized-from: v7 --- usr/man/man2/acct.2 | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usr/man/man2/acct.2 diff --git a/usr/man/man2/acct.2 b/usr/man/man2/acct.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0d10fd5912 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/man/man2/acct.2 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.TH ACCT 2 +.SH NAME +acct \- turn accounting on or off +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B acct(file) +.br +.B char *file; +.SH DESCRIPTION +The system is prepared to write a record +in an accounting +.I 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 +.IR file . +An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off. +.PP +The accounting file format is given in +.IR acct (5). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +acct(5), sa(1) +.SH 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. +.SH BUGS +No accounting is produced for programs running +when a crash occurs. +In particular nonterminating programs are never +accounted for. +.SH ASSEMBLER +(acct = 51.) +.br +.B sys acct; file -- 2.20.1