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System Callsvhangup(2)


NAME

 vhangup - virtually "hangup" the current controlling terminal

SYNOPSIS

 
#include <unistd.h> 
void vhangup(void);

DESCRIPTION

 

The vhangup() function is used by the initialization process init(1M) (among others) to ensure that users are given "clean" terminals at login by revoking access of the previous users' processes to the terminal. To effect this, vhangup() searches the system tables for references to the controlling terminal of the invoking process and revokes access permissions on each instance of the terminal that it finds. Further attempts to access the terminal by the affected processes will yield I/O errors (EBADF or EIO). A SIGHUP (hangup signal) is sent to the process group of the controlling terminal.

SEE ALSO

 

init(1M)

BUGS

 

Access to the controlling terminal using /dev/tty is still possible.

This call should be replaced by an automatic mechanism that takes place on process exit.


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 19 Mar 1998

 
      
      
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