acct(5) File Formats Manual acct(5) (NAME) acct - (SYNOPSIS) #include (DESCRIPTION) (CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) acct(2) : acct("/var/log/pacct"); . : #define ACCT_COMM 16 typedef u_int16_t comp_t; struct acct { char ac_flag; /* Accounting flags */ u_int16_t ac_uid; /* Accounting user ID */ u_int16_t ac_gid; /* Accounting group ID */ u_int16_t ac_tty; /* Controlling terminal */ u_int32_t ac_btime; /* Process creation time (seconds since the Epoch) */ comp_t ac_utime; /* User CPU time */ comp_t ac_stime; /* System CPU time */ comp_t ac_etime; /* Elapsed time */ comp_t ac_mem; /* Average memory usage (kB) */ comp_t ac_io; /* Characters transferred (unused) */ comp_t ac_rw; /* Blocks read or written (unused) */ comp_t ac_minflt; /* Minor page faults */ comp_t ac_majflt; /* Major page faults */ comp_t ac_swaps; /* Number of swaps (unused) */ u_int32_t ac_exitcode; /* Process termination status (see wait(2)) */ char ac_comm[ACCT_COMM+1]; /* Command name (basename of last executed command; null-terminated) */ char ac_pad[X]; /* padding bytes */ }; enum { /* Bits that may be set in ac_flag field */ AFORK = 0x01, /* Has executed fork, but no exec */ ASU = 0x02, /* Used superuser privileges */ ACORE = 0x08, /* Dumped core */ AXSIG = 0x10 /* Killed by a signal */ }; comp_t . c (long) : v = (c & 0x1fff) << (((c >> 13) & 0x7) * 3); ac_utime ac_stime ac_etime << >> (clock ticks) sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) . (Version 3 accounting file format) .. CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 . c_uid ac_gid ( UID GID . ). : struct acct_v3 { char ac_flag; /* Flags */ char ac_version; /* Always set to ACCT_VERSION (3) */ u_int16_t ac_tty; /* Controlling terminal */ u_int32_t ac_exitcode; /* Process termination status */ u_int32_t ac_uid; /* Real user ID */ u_int32_t ac_gid; /* Real group ID */ u_int32_t ac_pid; /* Process ID */ u_int32_t ac_ppid; /* Parent process ID */ u_int32_t ac_btime; /* Process creation time */ float ac_etime; /* Elapsed time */ comp_t ac_utime; /* User CPU time */ comp_t ac_stime; /* System time */ comp_t ac_mem; /* Average memory usage (kB) */ comp_t ac_io; /* Characters transferred (unused) */ comp_t ac_rw; /* Blocks read or written (unused) */ comp_t ac_minflt; /* Minor page faults */ comp_t ac_majflt; /* Major page faults */ comp_t ac_swaps; /* Number of swaps (unused) */ char ac_comm[ACCT_COMM]; /* Command name */ }; (VERSIONS) . (STANDARDS) . (HISTORY) glibc 2.6. BSD . (NOTES) . .. NPTL .. . /proc/sys/kernel/acct proc(5) . (SEE ALSO) lastcomm(1), acct(2), accton(8), sa(8) Linux man-pages 6.19 2026-02-08 acct(5)