SYSCALL_DEFINE1(9)

SYSCALL_DEFINE19

Enable/disable process accounting

Usage

SYSCALL_DEFINE1(acct, const char __user * , name);

Arguments

acct

-- undescribed --

-- undescribed --

name

file name for accounting records or NULL to shutdown accounting

Overview

Returns 0 for success or negative errno values for failure.

sys_acct is the only system call needed to implement process accounting. It takes the name of the file where accounting records should be written. If the filename is NULL, accounting will be shutdown.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0

From linux-manual-2.6.26 2.6.26-29 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.