acct(2) System Calls acct(2)NAMEacct - enable or disable process accounting
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int acct(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The acct() function enables or disables the system process accounting
routine. If the routine is enabled, an accounting record will be writ‐
ten in an accounting file for each process that terminates. The termi‐
nation of a process can be caused by either an exit(2) call or a sig‐
nal(3C)). The effective user ID of the process calling acct() must have
the appropriate privileges.
The path argument points to the pathname of the accounting file, whose
file format is described on the acct.h(3HEAD) manual page.
The accounting routine is enabled if path is non-zero and no errors
occur during the function. It is disabled if path is (char *)NULL and
no errors occur during the function.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, −1 is returned
and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The acct() function will fail if:
EACCES The file named by path is not an ordinary file.
EBUSY An attempt is being made to enable accounting
using the same file that is currently being
used.
EFAULT The path argument points to an illegal address.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in
translating path.
ENAMETOOLONG The length of the path argument exceeds
{PATH_MAX}, or the length of a path argument
exceeds {NAME_MAX} while _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in
effect.
ENOENT One or more components of the accounting file
pathname do not exist.
ENOTDIR A component of the path prefix is not a direc‐
tory.
EPERM The {PRIV_SYS_ACCT} privilege is not asserted
in the effective set of the calling process.
EROFS The named file resides on a read-only file sys‐
tem.
SEE ALSOexit(2), acct.h(3HEAD), signal(3C), privileges(5)SunOS 5.10 20 Jan 2003 acct(2)