Solaris Containers: Resource Management and Solaris Zones Developer's Guide

exacct System Calls

 

 

 

The following table lists the system calls that interact with the extended accounting subsystem.

Table 3–1 Extended Accounting System Calls

Function 

Description 

putacct(2)

Provides privileged processes with the ability to tag accounting records with additional data that is specific to the process 

getacct(2)

Enables privileged processes to request extended accounting buffers from the kernel for currently executing tasks and processes 

wracct(2)

Requests the kernel to write resource usage data for a specified task or process