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

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Message-ID: <20081009210345.GC9967@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:03:45 -0700
From:	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@...too.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@...too.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel/acct.c and testing for accounting still running?

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:40:28PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:53:31PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > Could we expose acct_list in sysfs or procfs, as uid:0, gid:0, perms
> > 0600?
> What other OS do in this respect?
Searching indicates that FreeBSD exports two sysctls, acct_configured
and acct_suspended. 

I'm not sure from reading their source if they support multiple
concurrent accounting targets , as I'm not familar with their VFS code.
(Linux does, and you can see it used if you start use bootchart in an
init that also brings up a normal accounting instance)

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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