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

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 11:37:59 EST


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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