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Units are 1/AHZ 55 * seconds. 56 */ 57typedef u_int16_t comp_t; 58 59struct acct { 60 char ac_comm[10]; /* command name */ 61 comp_t ac_utime; /* user time */ 62 comp_t ac_stime; /* system time */ 63 comp_t ac_etime; /* elapsed time */ 64 time_t ac_btime; /* starting time */ 65 uid_t ac_uid; /* user id */ 66 gid_t ac_gid; /* group id */ 67 u_int16_t ac_mem; /* average memory usage */ 68 comp_t ac_io; /* count of IO blocks */ 69 dev_t ac_tty; /* controlling tty */ 70 71#define AFORK 0x01 /* fork'd but not exec'd */ 72#define ASU 0x02 /* used super-user permissions */ 73#define AMAP 0x04 /* system call or stack mapping violation */ 74#define ACORE 0x08 /* dumped core */ 75#define AXSIG 0x10 /* killed by a signal */ 76#define APLEDGE 0x20 /* killed due to pledge violation */ 77#define ATRAP 0x40 /* memory access violation */ 78#define AUNVEIL 0x80 /* unveil access violation */ 79 u_int8_t ac_flag; /* accounting flags */ 80}; 81 82/* 83 * 1/AHZ is the granularity of the data encoded in the comp_t fields. 84 * This is not necessarily equal to hz. 85 */ 86#define AHZ 64 87 88#ifdef _KERNEL 89int acct_process(struct proc *p); 90int acct_shutdown(void); 91#endif 92.Ed 93.Pp 94If a terminated or misbehaving process was created by an 95.Xr execve 2 , 96the name of the executed file (at most ten characters of it) 97is saved in the field 98.Fa ac_comm 99and its status is saved by setting one or more of the following flags in 100.Fa ac_flag : 101.Bl -tag -width "AUNVEIL" 102.It Dv AFORK 103A new process was created via 104.Xr fork 2 105that was not followed by a call to 106.Xr execve 2 . 107.It Dv ASU 108The process used super-user permissions. 109This flag is never set and is provided for source compatibility only. 110.It Dv ACOMPAT 111On VAX, this indicated that the process executed in PDP/11 compatibility mode. 112This flag is never set and is provided for source compatibility only. 113.It Dv ACORE 114The process terminated abnormally due to a signal and dumped 115.Xr core 5 . 116.It Dv AXSIG 117The process was killed by a 118.Xr signal 3 . 119.It Dv APLEDGE 120The process was killed due to a 121.Xr pledge 2 122violation. 123.It Dv ATRAP 124The process was killed due to a memory access violation 125detected by a processor trap. 126.It Dv AUNVEIL 127The process attempted a file access that was prevented by 128.Xr unveil 2 129restrictions. 130Note that this does not cause the process to terminate. 131.El 132.Sh SEE ALSO 133.Xr lastcomm 1 , 134.Xr acct 2 , 135.Xr execve 2 , 136.Xr pledge 2 , 137.Xr unveil 2 , 138.Xr signal 3 , 139.Xr core 5 , 140.Xr accton 8 , 141.Xr sa 8 142.Sh HISTORY 143An 144.Nm 145file format first appeared in 146.At v7 . 147