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NAME
       acct - switch process accounting on or off


SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int acct(const char *filename);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       acct(): _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)


DESCRIPTION
       The  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
       filename as it terminates.  An argument of NULL causes accounting to be turned off.


RETURN VALUE
       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.


ERRORS
       EACCES Write  permission  is denied for the specified file, or search permission is denied for one of the
              directories in the path prefix of filename (see also path_resolution(7)), or  filename  is  not  a
              regular file.

       EFAULT filename points outside your accessible address space.

       EIO    Error writing to the file filename.

       EISDIR filename is a directory.

       ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving filename.

       ENAMETOOLONG
              filename was too long.

       ENFILE The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached.

       ENOENT The specified filename does not exist.

       ENOMEM Out of memory.

       ENOSYS BSD  process  accounting  has not been enabled when the operating system kernel was compiled.  The
              kernel configuration parameter controlling this feature is CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.

       ENOTDIR
              A component used as a directory in filename is not in fact a directory.

       EPERM  The calling process has insufficient  privilege  to  enable  process  accounting.   On  Linux  the
              CAP_SYS_PACCT capability is required.

       EROFS  filename refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.

       EUSERS There are no more free file structures or we ran out of memory.


CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD (but not POSIX).


NOTES
       No accounting is produced for programs running when a system crash occurs.  In particular, nonterminating
       processes are never accounted for.

       The structure of the records written to the accounting file is described in acct(5).


SEE ALSO
       acct(5)


COLOPHON
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