linux-kernel - Re: kernel/acct.c and testing for accounting still running?

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Message-ID: <20081008154028.GA2520@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:40:28 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@...too.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel/acct.c and testing for accounting still running?

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:53:31PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> I ran into a bit of flapping with my init.d acct lately, and in tracing
> why, I noticed that there seems to be absolutely no way that the kernel
> exposes to show that it's running any accounting.
> 
> Could we expose acct_list in sysfs or procfs, as uid:0, gid:0, perms
> 0600?

What other OS do in this respect?
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