ACCT(2)                 GENIX Programmer's 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 argu-
           ment of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.

           The accounting file format is given in acct(5).

      SEE ALSO
           acct(5), sa(8)

      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.




























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