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ACCT(5)			    BSD	File Formats Manual		       ACCT(5)

NAME
     acct -- execution accounting file

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/acct.h>

DESCRIPTION
     The kernel	maintains the following	acct information structure for all
     processes.	 If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the ker-
     nel calls the acct(2) function call to prepare and	append the record to
     the accounting file.

     /*
      *	Accounting structures; these use a comp_t type which is	a 3 bits base 8
      *	exponent, 13 bit fraction ``floating point'' number.  Units are	1/AHZ
      *	seconds.
      */
     typedef u_short comp_t;

     #define AC_COMM_LEN 16
     struct acct {
	     char    ac_comm[AC_COMM_LEN];  /* command name */
	     comp_t  ac_utime;	     /*	user time */
	     comp_t  ac_stime;	     /*	system time */
	     comp_t  ac_etime;	     /*	elapsed	time */
	     time_t  ac_btime;	     /*	starting time */
	     uid_t   ac_uid;	     /*	user id	*/
	     gid_t   ac_gid;	     /*	group id */
	     short   ac_mem;	     /*	average	memory usage */
	     comp_t  ac_io;	     /*	count of IO blocks */
	     dev_t   ac_tty;	     /*	controlling tty	*/
     #define AFORK   0x01	     /*	forked but not exec'ed */
     #define ASU     0x02	     /*	used super-user	permissions */
     #define ACOMPAT 0x04	     /*	used compatibility mode	*/
     #define ACORE   0x08	     /*	dumped core */
     #define AXSIG   0x10	     /*	killed by a signal */
	     char    ac_flag;	     /*	accounting flags */
     };

     /*
      *	1/AHZ is the granularity of the	data encoded in	the comp_t fields.
      *	This is	not necessarily	equal to hz.
      */
     #define AHZ     64

     If	a terminated process was created by an execve(2), the name of the exe-
     cuted file	(at most ten characters	of it) is saved	in the field ac_comm
     and its status is saved by	setting	one of more of the following flags in
     ac_flag: AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE and ASIG.

SEE ALSO
     acct(2), execve(2), sa(8)

HISTORY
     A acct file format	appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

BSD				 June 5, 1993				   BSD

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