From b348647a0ab00fe947bbe4b0858502bf39751be7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirk McKusick Date: Fri, 10 May 1985 01:23:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] manual page distributed with 4.2BSD SCCS-vsn: lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 5.1 --- usr/src/lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr/src/lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 b/usr/src/lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 index 41da15170d..a995b4d70b 100644 --- a/usr/src/lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 +++ b/usr/src/lib/libc/sys/vhangup.2 @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" -.\" @(#)vhangup.2 4.1 (Berkeley) %G% +.\" @(#)vhangup.2 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% .\" -.TH VHANGUP 2V +.TH VHANGUP 2 "12 Febuary 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME vhangup \- virtually ``hangup'' the current control terminal @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ vhangup \- virtually ``hangup'' the current control terminal .I Vhangup is used by the initialization process .IR init (8) -to arrange that users are given \*(lqclean\*(rq' terminals at login, +(among others) to arrange that users are given +\*(lqclean\*(rq' terminals at login, by revoking access of the previous users' processes to the terminal. To effect this, .I vhangup @@ -34,6 +35,5 @@ the control terminal via .B /dev/tty is still possible. .PP -This call is peculiar to this version of UNIX. -The options and specifications of this system call and even the call itself -are subject to change. +This call should be replaced by an automatic mechanism which +takes place on process exit. -- 2.20.1