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acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:38:22 +0000 (09:38 -0500)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:50:36 +0000 (16:50 +0100)
commit46329a9dd74bd12e92fb7cc8afe70dad32875758
treea38c7a541f9c1cd20c23e033af5c099191927885
parent6784f274722559c0cdaaa418bc8b7b1d61c314f9
acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting

As Christian points out [1], even though it's privileged, this interface
has a lot of footguns. There are better options these days (e.g. eBPF),
so it would be good to start discouraging its use and mark it as
deprecated.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250212-giert-spannend-8893f1eaba7d@brauner/

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106-bsd-acct-v1-1-d15564b52c83@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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