Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754970AbYJHPh6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751998AbYJHPhu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:37:50 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:7512 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751495AbYJHPht (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:37:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=f3V0Au7VBmvtop5+jVBW9J43rHRNwvNXpsWm3Sr+9KWvXCuTashI/m/rlWt774+H4H zgGODRWiw5eknW85VUB7cHnyFEUqE/rmzUcA5BzmPAd+4Mp3Gv1RUdPekCDR4unSfABv CQ4PC7BOwL7IzUz5fCvzpGe69cnNbkJfsiTiA= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:40:28 +0400 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: "Robin H. Johnson" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel/acct.c and testing for accounting still running? Message-ID: <20081008154028.GA2520@x200.localdomain> References: <20081007235331.GT9967@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081007235331.GT9967@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 14 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/