Re: new goo for acct.h struct?
Carsten Paeth (calle@calle.in-berlin.de)
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 13:05:16 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> While we are at it: the current sizeof(struct acct) is 52. I think
> it would be nice to round it up to a nice power of 2 (64 or 128).
> Sometimes (after a crash) fsck likes to set the file size based on
> the number of blocks - most likely not a multiple of 52, and it
> confuses the accounting tools. Some padding (just in case we want
> to add something later) would be nice too.
>
> One more idea for accounting: log the device/inode of the executable.
> Sometimes more reliable than the command name (which the user can
> change to anything by creating a link to the program).
I like this idea. I vote for 128 bytes, 'cause if we add
pid, ppid, mem, io and rw, we are over 64 bytes.
>
> Marek
>
calle
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