Hello,

    This is a new patch "patch-2.6.5-elsa_1" for 2.6.5 kernel. The patch 
can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105806

   I also attach it at the end of this file. The goal of ELSA is to give 
to Linux the same accounting level that already exist on other 
commercial Unix. To achieve this goal we supply a patch that provides 
mechanism to group process together and perform accounting information 
on those groups. The mechanism is very close to PAGG+CSA but I think 
that aims are differents (of course it's open to discussion). As already 
said, we're trying to provide an environment that can support System V 
accounting. Also, we want to think about how to provide a unify 
interface from existing accounting tools and how can we interact with 
other Linux administrative tools like WebMin. Therefore, there are two 
main goals which are:

       o  provide an environment that can support System V accounting
       o  provide a unify interface from existing accounting tools (like
sar) to be used by existing Linux administrative tools (like WebMin)

     This patch is just a beginning and currently it allows to group
process together in a "bank" via /dev/elsacct device using ioctl(). 
Also, it allows to recover accounting informations (taken from BSD 
accounting for the moment) about a "bank".  We also provide a C program 
called elsa_cmd.c that "plays" with ioctl() to manage banks. This 
program can be found at

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/elsa/tests/elsa_cmd.c

Any feedbacks, any comments are welcome
Best,

Guillaume