VHANGUP

Section: System Calls (2)
Updated: June 30, 1985
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NAME

vhangup - virtually ``hangup'' the current control terminal

SYNOPSIS

vhangup()

DESCRIPTION

Vhangup is used by the initialization process init(8) (among others) to arrange 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 control terminal of the invoking process, revoking 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). Finally, a hangup signal (SIGHUP) is sent to the process group of the control terminal.

BUGS

Access to the control terminal via /dev/tty is still possible.

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