Re: acct: process accounting and 2.1.96

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Austin Donnelly wrote:

> 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.

Remember, 2.1.xx kernels are development, not release.
> 
> The question is then "how do we migrate to the new format?"
> 
When we migrate to the 2.2.xx kernels libc6 will migrate to new header
files and will reflect the changes.

> 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
> 
The libc6 built for 2.2.xx kernels will built a compatible sys/acct.h
header for your package build.

Luck,

Dwarf
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