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.
#define AC_COMM_LEN 16
/*
* Accounting structure version 2 (current).
* The first byte is always zero.
* Time units are microseconds.
*/
struct acctv2 {
uint8_t ac_zero; /* zero identifies new version */
uint8_t ac_version; /* record version number */
uint16_t ac_len; /* record length */
char ac_comm[AC_COMM_LEN]; /* command name */
float ac_utime; /* user time */
float ac_stime; /* system time */
float ac_etime; /* elapsed time */
time_t ac_btime; /* starting time */
uid_t ac_uid; /* user id */
gid_t ac_gid; /* group id */
float ac_mem; /* average memory usage */
float ac_io; /* count of IO blocks */
__dev_t ac_tty; /* controlling tty */
uint16_t ac_len2; /* record length */
union {
__dev_t ac_align; /* force v1 compatible alignment */
#define AFORK 0x01 /* forked but not exec'ed */
/* ASU is no longer supported */
#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 */
#define ANVER 0x20 /* new record version */
uint8_t ac_flag; /* accounting flags */
} ac_trailer;
#define ac_flagx ac_trailer.ac_flag
};
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, ACOMPAT, ACORE and ASIG. ASU is no longer supported.
ANVER is always set in the above structure.
SEE ALSOlastcomm(1), acct(2), execve(2), sa(8)HISTORY
A acct file format appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. The current record
format was introduced on May 2007. It is backwards compatible with the
previous format, which is still documented in <sys/acct.h> and supported
by lastcomm(1) and sa(8).
BSD May 15, 2007 BSD
