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ACCT (5)

execution accounting file

SYNOPSIS

    #include <sys/acct.h>

DESCRIPTION

    The kernel maintains an accounting information structure for all processes. If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the kernel calls the acct (2) function to prepare, and then append, a record for this process to the accounting file. The accounting structure struct acct is also described in the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h .

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