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Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION. 

NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-06-11 22:42:23 +00:00
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.\" Modified 1998-11-04 by Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.com>
.\" Modified 2004-05-27, 2004-06-17, 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk
.\"
.TH ACCT 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH ACCT 2 2008-06-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
acct \- switch process accounting on or off
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -49,8 +49,12 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR acct ():
_BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500)
.SH DESCRIPTION
When called with the name of an existing file as argument, accounting is
turned on, records for each terminating process are appended to
The
.BR acct()
system call enables or disables process accounting.
If called with the name of an existing file as its argument,
accounting is turned on,
and records for each terminating process are appended to
\fIfilename\fP as it terminates.
An argument of NULL causes accounting to be turned off.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
@ -131,7 +135,10 @@ SVr4, 4.3BSD (but not POSIX).
.\" (attempt is made to enable accounting using the same file that is
.\" currently being used).
.SH NOTES
No accounting is produced for programs running when a crash occurs.
No accounting is produced for programs running when a system crash occurs.
In particular, non-terminating processes are never accounted for.
The structure of the records written to the accounting file is described in
.BR acct (5).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR acct (5)