Subject: Re: accounting
To: None <Ketil.Danielsen@hiMolde.no>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/1997 06:48:18
> How does the accounting system deal with resource usage
> when the ownership of a process changes.  E.g., it spends
> x3 units while running as EUID 3, then changes to EUID 4
> spending x4 units.  Does the kernel record the x3 units
> as one acct record, then zeroes out the process' records,
> before running as EUID 4?

Real UID and GID at the time of process termination (exit)
is charged with all consumed resources.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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