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enable/disable process accounting
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">long <b class="fsfunc">sys_acct </b>(</code></td><td>const char __user * <var class="pdparam">name</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3026152"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
file name for accounting records or NULL to shutdown accounting
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Returns 0 for success or negative errno values for failure.
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<code class="function">sys_acct</code> 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.
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