A/UX® Programmer's Reference

acct(2) acct(2)
NAME
acct - enable or disable process accounting
SYNOPSIS
int acct (path)
char *pathi
DESCRIPTION
acct is used to enable or disable the system process accounting
routine. If the routine is enabled, an accounting record will be
written on an accounting file for each process that terminates.
Tennination can be caused by one of two things: an exi t call or
a signal; see exi t(2) and signal(3). The effective user ID of
the calling process must be superuser to use this call.
path points to a path name naming the accounting file. The accounting
file format is given in acct(4).
The accounting routine is enabled if path is nonzero and no errors
occur during the system call. It is disabled if path is zero and no
errors occur during the system call.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise,
a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
acct will fail if one or more of the following are true:
[EPERM]
[EPERM]
[ENAMETOOLONG]
[ELOOP]
[EBUSY]
[ENOTDIR]
[ENOENT]
February, 1990
Revision C
A pathname contains a character with the
high-order bit set.
The effective user ID of the calling process
is not superuser.
A component of a pathname exceeded
NAME MAX characters, or an entire pathname
exceeded PATH MAX.
Too many symbolic links were encountered
in translating a pathname.
An attempt is being made to enable accounting
when it is already enabled.
A component of the path prefix is not a
directory.
One or more components of the accounting
file path name do not exist.
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