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Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems



  Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
  Dirk> I changed 'accton.c' so that it calls 'exit(errno)'. It appears that
  Dirk> the errno is set to '2' in both cases, ie when acct(2) reports
  Dirk> 'device or resource busy' (ie accounting is already running) or a
  Dirk> 'function not implemented' (ie kernel not patched).

My fault as I called perror() first :) Now all is well, ENOSYS or EBUSY get
reported if accounting is running or not implemented, respectively. My thanks
Ian and Marek!

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Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca           http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd


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