Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man5

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 13:18:01 -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> It should say acct_process(9), but we don't have a man page for it
> (yet).

A dangling reference is much better than the current incorrect and
confusing wording.  Please, can you fix it?


> > On Aug 4, 2024, at 1:02 PM, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 19:49:06 -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > 
> >> Modified Files:
> >> 	src/share/man/man5: acct.5
> >> 
> >> Log Message:
> >> PR/58515: Kouichi Hashikawa: Sync with the header file
> > 
> > I notice that the man page says:
> > 
> >     ... If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the kernel
> >     calls the acct(2) function call to prepare and append the record to the
> >     accounting file.
> > 
> > which doesn't make any sense to me, as acct(2) is a syscall that is
> > called by superuser once to enable accounting.  Any ideas what it's
> > meant to be said here?
> > 
> > -uwe

-uwe