acct: process accounting and 2.1.96

[Austin Donnelly <austin@greenend.org.uk>]

The latest development linux kernels have a fairly substantially
changed "struct acct" defined in acct.h.

Currently:

libc5:
  sys/acct.h just includes linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version)

libc6:
  sys/acct.h is a new file, but it defines a structure which
  happens to be the same as linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version).

With 2.1.xx, linux/acct.h changes incompatibly - the structure is
larger, the command name comes at the end (not the start), and there
are some additional fields.

The question is then "how do we migrate to the new format?"

Incidentally, simply rebuilding the acct package against the new
header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses
sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h

Austin


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