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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/acct, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: acct()                 COHERENT System Call                acct()
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                      8: Enable/disable process accounting
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                     10: aacccctt(_f_i_l_e)
                     11: cchhaarr *_f_i_l_e;
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                     13: Process accounting records  who initiates each system process and
                     14: how  long  each process  takes  to execute.   These  data can  be
                     15: analyzed, to administer the system most efficiently.
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                     17: The system call  acct enables or disables process accounting.  If
                     18: file is not NULL, then accounting  is turned on; if file is NULL,
                     19: however, then process accounting is turned off.
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                     21: It is usual, but not necessary, that file be /uussrr/aaddmm/aacccctt.  file
                     22: must exist.   When enabled, the  system appends a  raw accounting
                     23: data record  in the  format described by  acct.h to file  as each
                     24: process terminates.
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                     26: acct is restricted to the superuser.
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                     28: ***** See Also *****
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                     30: ac, acct.h, accton, COHERENT system calls, exit(), sa, times()
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                     32: ***** Diagnostics *****
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                     34: Successful calls  return zero.  acct returns  -1 for errors, such
                     35: as nonexistent file or invocation by a user other than the super-
                     36: user.
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                     38: ***** Notes *****
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                     40: The system writes accounting  records for a process only when the
                     41: process exits.  Processes that never terminate and processes run-
                     42: ning at the time of a  system crash do not produce accounting in-
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