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NAME

acct - execution accounting file

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/acct.h>

DESCRIPTION

If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting option enabled, the system call

acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");

will start the process accounting. Each time a process terminates a record for this process is appended to the accounting file. The accounting structure struct acct is also described in the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h .