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<html><!-- This HTML file has been created by texi2html 1.29
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from syscalls.texi on 4 June 1994 -->
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<TITLE>Syscall specifications of Linux - acct</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="SEC84" HREF="syscalls_toc.html#SEC84" tppabs="http://www.infran.ru/TechInfo/syscalls/syscalls_toc.html#SEC84">acct</A></H2>
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<H3>SYNOPSIS</H3>
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<CODE>int acct(const char *<VAR>filename</VAR>);</CODE>
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<H3>PARAMETERS</H3>
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<VAR>filename</VAR>: [in] contains the path of the accounting file, or
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<CODE>NULL</CODE>.
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<H3>DESCRIPTION</H3>
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This call is not part of the plain Linux distribution. If the acct
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package is not installed, the call always return -1 and <CODE>errno</CODE> is set to
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<CODE>ENOSYS</CODE>. If the package is installed then the call function
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normally. In that case, if <VAR>filename</VAR> points to a valid path, the
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termination time of each process will be loggued in the filename it
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points to. Otherwise, if <VAR>filename</VAR> is <CODE>NULL</CODE>, then the
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accounting function is turned off.
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<H3>RETURN VALUE</H3>
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On success zero is returned. On error -1 is returned and <CODE>errno</CODE> is
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set to reflect the kind of error that occured.
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