Sys V.1 acctcom(1) question

[George Aguiar ext. 224]

    I have a question regarding acctcom.  When running a test program  with
the  following  signal catching function I notice a discrepency between the
time printed out by sigcatch() and the END TIME in /usr/adm/pacct for  this
process.

> void sigcatch()
> {
> long tloc;
>
>         time(&tloc);
>
>         printf("quitting time: %s\n",ctime(&tloc));
>
>         exit(0);
> }

Here is what the test program prints out when I "kill PID" it from csh:

> quitting time: Wed Feb  5 16:02:19 1986

And here is the entry from acctcom(1) for this particular process:

>COMMAND                      START    END          REAL     CPU    MEAN
>NAME         USER   TTYNAME  TIME     TIME       (SECS)  (SECS) SIZE(K)
>test1      geo      tty04    16:02:12 16:02:17     5.08    0.25   12.60

Note the END TIME from acctcom says  the  process  terminated  at  16:02:17
however, the process printed out that it was alive and well at 16:02:19!

Any ideas??


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